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I know his playing time has been erratic, but he does not fit well with the best personnel groupings on this team. The old heads are carrying them across the finish line today. I hope Durant and Curry combine to put 60 on the board today and LeBron gets another triple double.

I have gone to see it twice. I loved it and want at least 2-3 more with Reynolds and Jackman. Such amazing chemistry. I will probably go again early next week. I have AMC’s monthly pass and usually get at least two movies a week and sometimes three. There’s always a bunch of foreign films at the AMC on 42nd that are randomly interesting to see.

I would like to see SISU and Deadpool back-to-back. I remember texting a friend in Finland about how good that movie was and his response back was “I’m glad we finally have a good movie to go see.”

Cuckoo. This movie is aptly described by the title. I loved it and would watch it again. Had some real nazi overtones in this with some of the stuff that happens, but the movie is set in Bavaria so it fits. Would definitely recommend seeing it. Original horror movies like this are fun to watch. I had no expectations going in, but am glad I went to see it. Very good storyline and acting.

Maxxxine seemed to be all over the place. I don’t regret seeing it. It was just hard to follow at certain points. The ending was pretty easy to guess though.

This right here. His cult base is neither smart nor cognizant enough to recognize anything beyond “Orange god is my guy.”

Thanks for sharing that. I can understand the thought process behind what you quoted. I do believe this film resonates better with some folks than others, but that’s all film I guess. I am glad it is helping some folks out and giving them something to watch that touches them emotionally.

Mills doing what he does. What a shot.

The Boomers do not have a reliable option on offense. It’s great to play such good defense, but it doesn’t matter when you completely dry up on the other end. Giddey has got to develop his perimeter game A LOT. No real news there though. I would take the US by 15-20, perhaps more, depending upon the rotation Kerr decides to use in the semi-final if it is Serbia. Still gotta take out these Cariocas and friends, but I see no way this team loses when they are all focused.

The Boomers have a competitive roster, especially so with the international version of Mills showing up again in the 1st half. They lack bigs, but can pressure on the perimeter. I think that overall they are a tougher out for the US than Serbia if they win.

It’s just complete garbage and the best part is also using some state-backed “Sinophobia” statements when you say that their medals should be taken away and that they never should have competed in the first place. I think China has an amazing history and is very culturally rich and interesting. I have always found Chinese people here to be really polite, second only to Japanese and Koreans I cross paths with. I still want these medals taken away and given to the rightful winners.

Yep. In my experience, they typically are low achievers who desperately want to be the smart one in the room for once in their lives. What finally told me that I could not help my friend a few days ago was the final text I received from him. I told him that he had no actual evidence of any of these conspiracies and that this was crazy town. He responded by saying my views on these conspiracies were draconian and some other garbled stuff that made no sense to anyone with a functioning brain. He was gaslighting me for telling the truth. That was the point it hit me I cannot help him.

Some people here come across like Puritanical starter kits who have zero clue of the things their kids already have seen. If you honest to God think your child has not already been exposed to this level of gore, violence and language in their friend group, well, some of y’all are not as in tune with your kids as you believe. This is not 1975. The things I heard 9 and 10 year olds discuss in my brief time teaching was crazy to me to hear. I did not have a clue about how much they knew about the world. When I was that age I just cared about playing sports and that was about it. Totally different world now due to technology. Kids are so intelligent and have learned so much more about the world and what is in it than any of us could have ever dreamed of at that age. This movie would not register much other than confusion on some of the sexual innuendo comments, but the violence would not scare the average child in America in 2024. I don’t like that people become numb to this at a younger age now, but that’s another discussion. It’s cool that you went to see it with them now though. Just such a humorous movie. Will probably watch it a 3rd time to try and catch every reference I missed so far.

I would have no issue if my brother let his kids see this movie once they reach that age. Several of you really have no idea how much smarter children are now and how little this movie would effect them in any way other than getting some one liners they’d repeat to their friends. Kids in 2024 are so much smarter and have a better understanding of the world around them because of all the access they have to technology. Some of you sound like the people railing against explicit lyrics in music 30 or 40 years ago.

Kids see all of this stuff and hear about it from their friends. This is the Information Age and children are so incredibly proficient with technology that they will have already heard far worse than anything in this movie. If parents only knew what kids talk about in their friend groups when the parents are not around. I discovered this in the brief time I taught. Their conversations and knowledge about the world around them blow away what I knew at the same age.

I have read the responses here and tried to take some time to think at length about this. I believe that in this instance, even though this is a friend of 20 plus years that it is best to just completely cut him off. Most of the time I listen to people and attempt to help folks through life’s troubles, but I do not believe I can help my friend with the mental state he is in and how far down the rabbit hole he is with all of these conspiracies. I blocked his number and I feel okay in doing that because I am not the one that’ll get through to him. I am going to still read more from the links provided here upthread to better understand the mind of folks who fall prey to this stuff. Thank you for the advice y’all have offered. I do appreciate that.

Had a woman last night at work in town for the night from upstate New York waiting for their cruise to Bermuda today. Told her she should take her two daughters to see this movie before they leave for their cruise. The youngest daughter was nine and she says “She tells me she never says cuss words, but I know better. She can handle seeing this movie.” My kind of parent!

Do you remember when I said it that it was because the Phillies have fewer injury concerns? Do you also remember that since you spouted off with one of your customary ridiculous proclamations that the Yankees have played mostly sub-.500 baseball? Do you remember that part as well? Of course you don’t Your ability to selectively remember things rivals one other poster on this board.

That will be the enduring image from these Olympics and it happened 15,000 km from Paris. Tahiti is an awesome place and Teahupoo is one of the most fierce waves in the world and likely the heaviest. So glad that something great like this has come out of the surfing competition.

He is. He has in the past cited the Tuskegee Experiment and during COVID only got his vaccination once DISD said you will lose your job. I am sure studies have been done that you might be far more familiar with than I am.

That video is incredible. I believe he has only done two like that because of the two nutjobs his audience asked him to debunk. Everything else is teaching people about science, which is cool.

Haha no. He went to a small HBCU, Jarvis Christian.

I have not been around him in probably a decade now, but we have regularly talked about sports, life and whatnot. This is a really recent thing, within the last three weeks or so. I did stop taking his calls. I do a fairly good job insulating myself from crazy people. Well as well as you can doing the job that I do, but I digress. I guess just being confronted with it on a personal level like this was really surprising. Not that these people exist, but rather how easily he speaks about this like it’s true.

So for the Houston people this might be a field day because is a life-long resident of Dallas. Married for 30 years or so. Three kids and a grandchild now. He teaches and coaches. He is extremely responsible with his family and is a present father and husband. The conspiracy stuff is insane and I told him as much. I was direct about it, but tried not to personally insult him. He believes in an alien race of some kind, with Billy Carson banging the drum on the Anunnaki conspiracy being the main one. I put him on a call with a friend that he knows who is probably my closest friend. My non-conspiracy minded friend listened and refuted every conspiracy. Everytime you ask where he gets this from he says it’s “documented.” I told him a clown making things up out of whole cloth is not documentation. He also does what a lot of conspiracy addled people do and say “THEY” when they have no idea who to blame. It is always “THEY don’t want you to know.” I wish someone would take people like Billy Carson and shoot them directly into an active volcano for the harm they do to people.

6G, but THEY don’t want you to know that.