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  1. Vegas64
    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?
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    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.
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    It's, as the kids say, mid. SoCal and affordability, does not compute. affordability as in the property taxes.
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    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.
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    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
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    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...
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    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.
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    Grand Rapids in the summer is a very underrated awesome time. Hit up a Meijer's.
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    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.
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    Hey I saw that Dude Perfect post too!
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    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.
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    ESPECIALLY incognito mode!!
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    It’s official.
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    Should have read the whole thread first. Someone else saw it immediately as well haha.
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    "Luckily, I have cat-like reflexes" sent me.
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    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.
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    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.
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    That guacamole was the bigger offender IMO. Straight out of the box of the refirigerated aisle of HEB.
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    I actually don't mind Daemon being flummoxed and taken down a peg this season and struggling with a bunch of inferior house Lords and a castle that's falling apart and dealing with the witch who is obviously manipulating him to some degree. I think it's an interesting use of his character because, frankly, I thought his character as this impetuous and impulsive loose cannon great warrior was contrived and stupid and is a worse option.
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    You hate dynamic pricing, wait until you hear about it's cousin, "surveillance pricing": https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/07/ftc-issues-orders-eight-companies-seeking-information-surveillance-pricing Agency seeks information about products and services that use personal data, including finances and browser history, to set individualized prices for the same goods or services. The FTC issued civil subpoenas to eight companies in financial services and consulting—including Mastercard, JPMorgan, and McKinsey—that advertise targeted pricing products to clients like Starbucks, McDonald’s, Home Depot, and Kirkland’s.
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    Can you, though?
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    I admit I was wrong. I don't know if I was just in denial or just old and tone deaf, but I thought pivoting from Biden with 3.5 months left was stupid. I didn't expect this level of energy and excitement for Kamala. I'm very impressed.
  24. Vegas64
    Alright, well more $25 Paxlovid for me and my family then (but it was surprising to hear that the pharmacies around me were low/out of it).
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    I was reading an Atlantic article on the Woodstock '99. There really was a small sliver of time '97-'01 maybe, when crap like Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock and Korn had the attention and buy-in of America's youth. Crazy.

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