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  1. 14 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I've always considered BLM as a concept and not an actual group. Perhaps a group has taken on that name but I don't believe they speak for anyone except for people that work in that legal entity. 

    It's like when I receive a cold call for a group called "The fund to help the widows and orphaned children of Texas lawmen killed in the line of duty LLC" I don't think of those as the actual widows and children. They're just some group that may or may not advance a cause.

    I do as well. I have never looked at BLM as an organization. It is the idea that a black life has as much value as any other life on this planet. When I went to protest marches in DC and NYC in 2020 it was always the idea and thought behind the phrase that I support. I could not tell you much of anything about the legal entity.

  2. 3 hours ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:


    What is Philly going to do with that loser?

    A nice trip to the 2nd round that ends with Embiid and Maxey both trying to murder him after he goes 5-20 in the deciding game.

  3. 2 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    Sweet christ you’re stupid. 

    I hear these comparisons occasionally on figures from nazi Germany and it reinforces my belief that we have millions of people who have no idea about that time period and overall have a level of absurd ignorance about history. This is not and never will be anything remotely close to that era. 

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  4. 1 hour ago, mchookem said:

    ok, you may not be racist, but your character is questionable.

    i don't get it. never will. and i don't want to get it bc that would mean i have some of that same rot. fuck that.

    I am trying to think of a good way to phrase this when talking about what you are saying. I think the most straightforward way is that if you value money, things, personal wealth while ignoring the inherent racism then yes that makes people who do that part of the problem we have in America and worldwide. 
     

    This isn’t a new phenomenon by any means, but now people who feel this way can connect with millions of like-minded people through social media who choose money over decency and sitting on the sidelines versus doing the right thing by our fellow human beings. In the end your money doesn’t matter. What you leave behind in possessions does not matter. What matters is when the moment arose in your life to do the right thing and help those the downtrodden in society did you answer the call and make an effort to do something positive for others or did you ignore the situation, say it isn’t your problem and move on?

    I will gladly admit that before the summer of 2020 I did not back up my words with near enough action. I still feel like I need to do more for others because helping others is a gigantic part of the human experience. People who willfully neglect others are people I just feel sad for. They will live out their days arguing about stuff that does not matter and they’ll miss out on so many incredible things solely because of being selfish. 

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  5. I finished this and there definitely has to be more seasons to come with this show. It gives you a little bit of everything emotionally, but the biggest thing to me is that having three actors with autism being your leads makes this show be authentic in a way that cannot be replicated by folks who are not on the spectrum.

    I also want to say Sosie Bacon was fantastic in her role. So was Joe Mantegna as Jack’s dad. I also liked Dele Ogundiran as Ewatomi. Everything about this show is just cool. My mother watched this before I saw it and she loved it. If you have a loved one that is autistic or have a friend that is you will like this show. 

  6. I will watch this and I am glad John C. Reilly was cast as Dr. Buss. I know Magic nor Jeannie are going to endorse this show because of separate projects about this era, but I will watch this and then whatever else comes out about this era. This was the NBA’s golden age. From the Finals being on tape delay in 1980 to by the end of the decade seeing the beginning of the influx of European players. The Showtime Lakers, even if you intensely hated them and the franchise as a whole, helped take the NBA into mainstream sports culture around the world.

  7. This show is just beautiful. It is somewhat difficult for me to put into words how awesome it is to see a show that is centered around autism. I have autism and it is milder than what is portrayed by these characters. The thing that made my day was the fact that all three lead characters are autistic and one of them had never acted in his life before this show. I can’t fully say just how cool it was to watch the first episode. I saw some of my own life in what happened in the first episode. Everyone with autism is different and I hope this show sheds some light on and educates some folks about what exactly being autistic means. I’m proud to be autistic and seeing this show just made me smile a good bit. I hope some of y’all enjoy it if you watch it as well. 

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  8. 2 hours ago, Bravo said:

    So what are you saying exactly? You want him censored or no? 

    I am very libertarian on free speech issues and always have been. Our country was founded on freedom of speech even if you don't agree with it or it is misinformed in your eyes, offensive, etc. . I want people to keep in mind some of the worst things in history have been done almost always to protect the public from "harm" or for greater good. The thought police stuff would fall into that. 

     

    We are still in the midst of a worldwide pandemic that is the most severe in a century. I expect human beings that care about their fellow woman or man to be responsible with the words they use, especially those that have a platform that can spread a good message about getting a vaccine. 
     

    This is solely a do the right thing moment. Contrarians spreading crazy disinformation that has no basis in science or medicine are actively harming people. Words have consequences when they are used in the manner Rogan uses his. He is showing he does not care whether people live or die. He’s getting paid and that’s what he’s in it for. He could be doing so much good right now, but he willingly chooses not to because “he’s just some moron asking questions.” When someone tells you who they are on the inside in this manner believe them. 

  9. On 1/26/2022 at 10:37 AM, Brisketexan said:

    This.

    Look, I'm an old fart.  I remember when absolutely batshit insane, irrational, and detached-from-reality-and truth "pamphlets" were how people indulged in this shit.  I went to gun shows and similar events 30-40 years ago, and occasionally, there were some "fringe-y" types around, or some guy's table also had a stack of "newsletters" about how the illuminati were hiding proof of aliens and having perverse sex with them along with JFK who was actually still alive and tag-teaming the still-alive Marilyn with Elvis (I'm not saying I picked up a newsletter to read that particular story, but I'm also not saying I didn't).  

    But their distribution was......limited.  The nutbars reached.....dozens of people.

    Now, through the magic of internet first, and then the amplification of such things as the approach got picked up by "celebrity" types, the same inane, utterly batshit crap I once saw on hand-printed newsletters at a SE TX gun show in 1986 now get an audience of 11 million people.

    I didn't worry about these ideas when they were only communicated among a few dozen gullible morons.  Now that the gullible morons have a common source, and have become the largest single "information consuming" audience in the country....yeah, it's fucking troubling.

    Listen to some of that batshit crap he's selling.  Fucking listen to it. You're not "black" unless your skin is midnight black?  Ignoring (just for starters) the continuing legacy of treatment of people of even fractional african descent in this country for centuries?  The treatment of such people by the law and law enforcement?  How your dad would have felt if your daughter brought home one of those lighter-skinned black guys?  Jesus fucknuts, what the fucking fuck?

    You're goddammed right the problem is that idiotic shit like that has an audience of 11 million people.  It should make everyone concerned.

    I share your concern here because of the audience size that is listening to him. I don’t listen to Rogan, but it is not because I hate him. I just don’t really listen to podcasts and until recently I did not realize how much of a negative effect this guy is having with his “I’m a moron that’s just asking questions” approach on his show.
     

    I think that in a society we all have a responsibility to be a good part of it. We all have our own weight to carry so to speak. Rogan has 11 million plus people listening to him. I assume there are many vaxxed listeners who just watch or listen for the celebrity guests he has. There are also some I assume that listen to his vaccine stuff and go right along with it. That is absolutely an irresponsible use of a media platform. He could be doing a lot of good in spreading news about the vaccine and how it is saving countless lives. He is messing around and eventually, like almost everyone e who wants to be the contrarian, he’ll find out. You play with fire long enough you’ll eventually get burned.

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  10. 7 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    Not even remotely the same situation.

    I think people change as they age and honestly I think that Stern, underneath all those layers of craziness that he built his show and career on, is a guy who does actually care about his fellow human beings. I have never gotten a vibe from listening to Stern that says this guy is the kind of person that would be doing what Rogan is doing. Plus I have always found Robin Quivers to be entertaining in the back and forth banter they have. 

  11. 1 hour ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    Maybe his kids are grade-A dickheads as well.  Have you met them?

    They could be, but if they are that would not be their fault. I’m not going to think badly of the kids in this situation.  I just hope they have at least one adult in their life that will give them some positive direction. Every child deserves people around them that help further their growth emotionally. I just worry that we will have hundreds of thousands of kids in similar situations who are going to suffer because of the decisions made by the people who are supposed to love and care for them the most, but instead make insanely selfish decisions.

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  12. 1 hour ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    Goodbye GIF

    I cannot fathom how this person would readily choose death over surviving and helping to raise his family. As much as I enjoy dissecting the human mind and better understanding it each day, I just have zero interest right now in even giving such an inherently selfish human being any kind of attention. Those children deserve far better than what they are getting and the emotional wounds they will have if he dies will go well into adulthood for them. But you know “mah freedoms!” are more important than parental obligations. 

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  13. 20 hours ago, Bojack said:

    I was born in '73.  I remember it well.  I've always been a Rockets fan so fuck Larry Bird for '86. Fuck Magic Johnson on behalf of the Western Conference throughout the '80s. Fuck Danny Ainge most especially for the time he threw the ball at Mario Elie's face.  Fuck John Stockton for being a dirty rat bastard.  Fuck Karl Malone going all the way back to his La. Tech days since I grew up going to Lamar basketball games and they had quite a rivalry in the Billy Tubbs, Pat Foster era following Lamar's trip to the Sweet 16 back in '80.  Fuck Karl for impregnating a 12 year old.  Fuck Stockton for being an even bigger contrarian conspiracy dumbshit than Kyrie.  I had reasons for disliking all of them even though I no longer have anything against Bird or Magic.  The rest named in my rant still suck and will always suck.  

    I mean this is a pretty high quality rant right here. I never thought I would get to see Stockton and Kyrie in the same rant for both being conspiracy nuts, but here we are. What a world we live in where one guy believes the earth is flat and won’t get a vaccine because reasons and the other has brain worms and thinks athletes are dropping dead all around the world.

    Magic was my childhood hero, but other than that no issue with including him since he and the Showtime Lakers quite literally ran an entire conference for a solid decade. I mean if I were a fan of a team in the West at that time I would have probably hated the Lakers almost as much as fans of THOSE GUYS hated the Lakers.

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  14. On 1/21/2022 at 10:34 PM, dcbc said:

    I've got a full auto espresso maker that I've relegated to weekend duty.  Some real gourmet shit, Jimmy.

     

    On work days when we're trying to get the kids out the door, I make a pot of drip from whole beans ground at home.  We got this Cuisinart when we got married almost 20 years ago and other than my cracking the carafe on the countertop once (replacement was $25), it's never missed.  And it's not expensive and fancy.  It's drip.  Yes, there are some variables that could be adjusted that this price point doesn't have.  But for my workday cups, it does the job.  We clean it with water and vinegar occasionally.  Other than that, no fuss, no muss.

     

    Basically this:

    https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/cuisinart-reg-14-cup-programmable-coffee-maker-with-hotter-coffee-option/5177667?skuId=65087619&store=1365&enginename=google&mcid=PS_googlepla_nonbrand_coffeetea_local&product_id=65087619&adtype=pla&product_channel=local&adpos=&creative=356296492442&device=c&matchtype=&network=g&utm_campaignid=71700000054078780&utm_adgroupid=58700005143200362&targetid=92700045205680571&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIms60yLbE9QIVqxbUAR1MJgKnEAQYAyABEgJCyfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

     

    I was given a fully automatic De’Longhi espresso machine by a friend for helping him move last summer. I looked up the cost and it would’ve run me 600+ had I purchased it. It had never been used. It’s been really cool to have and I get quite a bit of use out of it.

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  15. On 1/21/2022 at 7:03 PM, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    One of my best friends, he flunked band in fifth grade. Couldn’t even bang two cymbals together without fucking it up.  He graduated from, you guessed it, A&M. 

    It sounds like ending up at A&M was very cymbalic for him.

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  16. I have met some folks in the last two plus years that you could throw that stupid label on. I think most of the people that are called stupid lack even the most basic educational skills.

    I try not to spend a great deal of time worrying about them though. If you want to be left behind by society and live in an outdated construct of what the world is now so be it. I won’t force anyone to see reason. Just keep to yourself and leave the people alone trying to clean up the messes left by other like-minded people.

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