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  1. Gonna tell my kids that's Warren Buffett.
  2. It's been repeated ad nausem, but since 1992 or 1996 when USA had a chokehold on global basketball talent, the world writ large has made exponential gains and USA has made linear gains. The Law of large numbers works against USA here-- it's easier to double smaller numbers and harder when you are already great, but especially looking out to 2028, it's hard to see a future where Olympics basketball is a cakewalk to gold anymore. Just look at the the 1st round of the drafts these days, liek 50% are foreign born. I say all that to say, I'll cherish and be grateful for the Gold medal-- not taking it for granted.
  3. Okay, that's funny.
  4. If he was likeable he'd be playing for Camaroon or Ghana or wherever, but then he wouldn't be playing.
  5. Get a job, Lebowski.
  6. Don't speak too soon now.
  7. Saturday, looks like it's pretty short and contained. I'll say it out loud at the risk of sounding like the Boomer I am....Breakdancing is stupid and it being an olympic event is stupid. What's next? Parkour? Ultimate Tag? Frisbee Golf? Floor is lava?
  8. That's funny. I had a friend get RX'ed Ivermectin from a doctor and remember being shocked that was a thing. I legit thought all Ivermectin was $10 tubes of horsepaste bought on Amazon.
  9. It's, as the kids say, mid. SoCal and affordability, does not compute. affordability as in the property taxes.
  10. I did this exercise recently almost to the exact same criteria (politics, weather, affordability, airports, etc.). And truly the only locale that hit all the marks was SoCal. It's crazy, but I guess that is why there is the stereotype of SoCal being perfect. The weather, at least. Someone said it once, and I've found it to be true in my dozens of times in Denver over my lifetime-- Denver is just Kansas City if KC was at the base of the Rockies. And I would live there, but for me the elevation is a disqualifier (not sickle cell but similiarly health related). Scottsdale seems pretty horrible to retire to for me.
  11. I was reading that scientists still don't really know why we sleep, just that a lack of sleep will kill you. I think the leading theory is that when we sleep our body goes into a sort of deep cleaning in our brains and GI (the guts are the second brain of the body) and we clear out toxins and build-up of bacteria, etc. and without sleep those toxins build up and kill us. One of my worst nightmares is that weird disease where you can't stop laughing (or hiccuping) until you die. This one trumps that after reading about it recently: https://www.webmd.com/brain/what-is-fatal-familial-insomnia
  12. Man, this election needs to be studied at like American University or LBJ school of public affairs or whatever schools research and educate people on politics and politicking, because what Democrats have done in such a short time is nothing short of remarkable and awesome: - Sacked the incumbent for his VP, with 140 days to go, raised a crap ton more money, picked a homerun VP, put themselves in pole position with less than 90 days to go. Talk about snatching victory from the jaws of defeat in the days after the infamous debate...
  13. Walz is amazing. I'm not so disgruntled about the pushing of the stupid stolen valor, it's just politics. Probably trying to get payback for the leaning into and pushing the couch stuff. We just gotta get used to muckraking again, I guess.
  14. Grand Rapids in the summer is a very underrated awesome time. Hit up a Meijer's.
  15. I had a long covid issue with lungs and had to go to pulmonologist. The PFT's they put you through in the glass box are no joke. Anyways, reading your lack of sleep and how it screws up the mind made me think, and draw a direct line, to the Derka post about the mental hospital and how his issues were exacerbated with a lack of sleep. God bless.
  16. Hey I saw that Dude Perfect post too!
  17. Dude that New Yorker article is nuts. A long read but worth it. Two things that really jumped out at me: they will let any legacy into Harvard and wow didn’t realize the hardcore drugs he was on.
  18. Should have read the whole thread first. Someone else saw it immediately as well haha.
  19. "Luckily, I have cat-like reflexes" sent me.
  20. I actually liked the dialogue a lot this season. There are multiple scenes, usually at least one a week, that is downright Shakespearean in my opinion.
  21. Agree, and with the real King's healing and walking, it was hard to determine based on his wounds healing/scarring on his face and ears, exactly how much time had lapsed, but it was obvious there was a decent jump. They are no longer dealing with wet bloody wounds, at least like last episode.
  22. That guacamole was the bigger offender IMO. Straight out of the box of the refirigerated aisle of HEB.
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