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It’s not that I care about the money that Buss has. She and her family are plenty wealthy and will be as long as they are running the Lakers. It is more an interest in do teams still take out insurance on contracts of players like this one since his injury history is fairly lengthy. Kinda like Grant Hill’s contract with Orlando and how little he played.

No I do not mean guaranteed. I am fully aware of what the definition of guaranteed is. The question is did the Lakers get an insurance policy on the contract in case of a catastrophic injury to Street Clothes.

The biggest issue theaters have is the behavior of the patrons. I have that AMC pass so I can see three movies a week if I choose to do so. I pick times to go when I know the movie will not be full or even close to that. I am sure others share this sentiment, but the biggest issues are other people who will not stop talking during the movie to those around them or even on the phone. People coming in drunk and/or high just adds to the inability to be quiet and respectful. This experience drives people toward just staying home. Thinking anyone should pay 17 for a coke and popcorn. This is silly. I just bring my own snacks and usually a coffee to drink. Sometimes I buy the soda because I do like getting a cherry limeade Mello Yello. I have stated before that I have an aversion to loud noise, but some movies it works well because it drowns out the talkers. Oppenheimer did this really well as well as Top Gun last year and Mission Impossible this year. If you want to bring your children to an adult movie at least have them not talk through the whole thing. I get it if they go to see the TMNT movie. They are excited to see that movie.

I was going to say owner’s suite as well. Good Lord the lack of self-awareness in those posts are simply astounding.

The Niger situation is of quite a bit of interest to me because I have a really good friend here from Niger and the majority of his family is still there. I genuinely have an interest in Niger (Would like to travel there one day with him to see his homeland) and he has told me a lot about their history. His train collapse story is humorous when he tells it with his thick accent.

Man Street Clothes got paid. I wonder how much of that 186 million is insured. I will gladly be mistaken if Davis plays an average of more than 55 games a season over the next five years. Unless the Lakers are enclosing him in a bubble he is going to get injured. He seems like a nice enough guy, but that’s a lot of money to pay someone who cannot handle contact on a consistent basis.

My God those temperatures are just insane to think about. I remember years ago having three-a-days in college and we had one practice around sunrise, another in the afternoon and one more in the evening. We stopped for water constantly in the middle one. That Texas summer is nothing compared to the scorched earth one you are now enduring. Today here it almost hit 80 in Manhattan. It felt like fall. When this place hits the upper 90’s you would think the world is coming to an end.

This stuff with Rizzo, and his not properly diagnosed concussion, should have any medical personnel employed by the Yanks fired if they were part of saying it was a neck injury. I mean I found it odd what a slump he was in, but to see it was because he was playing baseball for two months with a foggy brain that had reaction times slower than an average non-athlete is somewhat infuriating. By all accounts he’s a great guy and I hope he will just sit out for the rest of the season and get his mind right.

That the Yankees ever let him back onto the roster was embarrassing. Completely sever ties with this guy and move on.

I work as a server and I am just astonished now at the amount of places that want tips. I sometimes will tip for coffee if it is a regular place I go to. I am not tipping someone for scanning my groceries. I am not tipping someone who sells me a bottle of coke. The rare times I will go out to eat (I spend enough time in restaurants and would rather not go out to eat) I always tip 33 percent. I feel that is a good amount to tip to a server. I am blessed in that I normally have really good guests that tip me well, but not everyone has it that good that serves so I make sure I tip well. The rest of this tipping culture now is crazy to me though. If you want to work for tips become a server and you’ll earn your tips in my opinion.

I have bought so many packages of them for Brazilian friends (Brazilian grocery store over in Astoria has them readily available) here that eat them about as fast as I give them to them. Very delicious and goes with just about anything. Brazilians have some really good cuisine.

The taxes here are something else. I do not mind paying higher taxes so long as I see the money being put to good use. I am not entirely seeing that with Adams or Hochul. Still this place is better to live than most anywhere in the US. I am still going to leave though as I want access to better beaches on a regular basis. That’s nit-picking looking at the overall picture of life here, which is mostly awesome, but we all have something in nature that we really enjoy and the beach is it for me.

Burke I do not mind because she knows the game and is generally good. Doc, well, I feel for those of y’all that will willingly listen to him meander through his thoughts on the action. Best thing the Sixers did was get him out of their building. 2nd best thing will be jettisoning Harden. I used to love hearing Dick Stockton way back when during the height of the Showtime Lakers on the Sunday broadcasts on CBS. He had an excitement for the action that matched the moment really well.

Again the goal is monetizing students and placing a value upon each of them by getting them into charter schools. A nice by-product of these charter schools is the 3rd World education they will receive (Thus sending them straight into a labor force they are not prepared to enter where they will be perpetually poor.) That many of these students are at-risk minority kids is the real icing on the cake for those interested in keeping minority children living in poverty. All the while this system is making some wealthy investors even richer. What a time to be alive.

I am fully supportive of the music and sound effects in pretty much every movie I see. If there is one thing that shuts people up from being annoying in a theatre it is even louder noise than themselves. I do not enjoy random loud noise in public, but in an enclosed theatre where you are guaranteed to have at least three or four people that won’t shut up or keep their phone from shining brightly, seeing this cacophony of sound effects did the trick and kept the people in there silent.

Just leaving a showing because I wanted to see it when I had time and 12:30 was the time I could make. It’ll make for little sleep, but it was worth it to see this movie. It really works the mind over watching them create the most destructive weapon in human history. It’s a masterpiece of film.

Thank you for posting this as my medical acumen is pretty low on the knowledge scale. I read a website called Defector and they wrote up an article about this as well and talked in brief about athletes of this age. Basketball players seem to have the highest amount of cardiac arrest as compared to athletes in other sports. I am glad James is okay and I hope he is able to get back on the court when doctors feel the time is right.

No Jokic was expected, but a bummer nonetheless for the Serbians. I keep looking at the guys going to this and the Aussie group just looks really strong heading into the tournament. I have zero idea what identity the Americans are going to try and coalesce around, but they cannot leave this tournament without at least making the title game. They have probably the easiest travel schedule there so lack of rest cannot be the culprit of another disappointing showing.

Going to need a lot more than dusting to give him this moment.

Anyone willingly working for or supporting Musk needs a psychiatric evaluation. He is a con man. Nothing more, nothing less. The Boring Company thievery should have him and those running that scam in prison. He is doubly frustrating to me because, as I have said before, telling everyone he has Asperger’s (He’s not even bright enough to know it should never be called that ever again due to the crimes committed by Dr. Asperger against autistic children in Vienna during the war.) while acting like a narcissistic psychopath gives the appearance that those of us who have this might be just like him. I am glad to be nuerodivergent, but I am not glad that this insidious clownfraud is as well. He could be doing some amazing work in the field of autism, but instead he chose the path of least resistance and love from some of the worst cretins that live among us.

That screenshot is what was originally said. I was polite I believe in what I stated there to both of them. That request not to use that word was turned into a three ring circus of ridiculousness and not only that, but instead of just saying “Maybe I will think about refraining from using that word in the future” it turned into a victimization in the mind of one of the two and was , you guessed it, referred to as a witch hunt that the poster would not participate in. Christ on a cracker the mental gymnastics required to pull all of that off is astounding. Someone here posited that we should not be calling Greg Abbott by the derogatory term Hot Wheels. I have said it about him, but they’re right in that it is something that should not be used. I can have contempt for his actions without using that term so thank you to the person who brought that up. I have not used it often and have thought about the use of it before, but it is something that can be eliminated from what I refer to him as. Being able to do that means your ego is not in control and you can take admonishment from others without claiming to somehow be a victim in all of this.

I apologize for such a late reply to this, but sometimes life gets in the way, but in a good way. I felt like I was clear on what I said, but yes throwing it around in casual conversation should be verboten. Some of the young guys I work with say it and I just politely tell them “Aww come on man you can use a better word than that one. Please don’t say it.” I have never had one person reply to me with indignation or be flippant and keep saying it. I have some more I can say, but I am almost to the beach and want to get out in the ocean to begin this beautiful day.

A place I worked at near Central Park had a breakfast menu item named after him because it was his favorite thing to eat when he would come in years ago. I heard some very nice stories about him. He was as talented a singer as his generation produced and he was a kind soul. Rest in peace Mr. Bennett.

Defector has a woman that writes about the WNBA and her articles are always a pretty good read even though I know almost nothing about the players she is introducing to me. She writes with more enthusiasm and prose than any of the guys writing about the NBA. She makes me miss when Wojnarowski was churning out articles and stories about the NBA before he made it to ESPN.

And like clockwork Phoenix came to his rescue. I am sure we will hear quotes about his excitement of playing with Durant and how he has never worked harder during camp. He may well drop the laziness and become a viable rotation piece, but history usually dictates otherwise. He needs a swift kick in the proverbial backside to get him to realize he is one pouting fit away from plying his trade in a backcourt shared by Manny Pacquiao.