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This. I've watched these games-- Kyrie isn't the problem. To those just dumping it on him, it's clear they either aren't watching or just have an axe to grind. That said, there are structurally problems with Defense and Coaching for sure.

This is the way.

Those Metro cops were legit

You might have seen this thread where I'm asking about moving to either OKC or Tulsa, for a variety of reasons, and one being medicinal mj : https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/topic/29932-anyone-ever-willingly-moved-to-oklahoma-instead-of-just-from/#comment-5124066 I had the (dis)pleasure the last few days of poking around OKC and Edmund, and the western and eastern suburbs. It really looked like cannibus stores and medical marijuana and vape accessory stores were littered on every corner, saturated already. Those who really need it or want it, can get it. I cannot imagine if it were fully legal for recreational, I'd think you'd have even more blight and marijuana stores become your new dollar tree and payday loan store fronts and it would be horrible. The border cities it's already all they have going for them as the drive up 35N until maybe Moore or Norman seems dead and Ardmore seems like a dying town. Just my observation from the last few days; Tulsa may be different, haven't explored it yet.

Disney laying off 7,000 starting today-- I wonder if a contingent of that will be Disney+

Agree with everyone-- but just giving employees equity at the $20bn valuation seems like a really cool thing to do if you have any hope or faith that the company will continue to exist and not be sold off for parts or outright fail. I think I read there were 2k employees left-- I would think they are pleased and think of it as a pretty good lottery ticket. On the other hand, Musk has not shown the most integrity and character with honoring equity and severance payouts for legacy Twitter employees. That might be more of a dynamic, like when a new alpha lion takes over another lions den, he kills all the cubs of the old guard and feeds only his offspring. Who knows with Musk.

If you are a gambling man, seems like staying on at Twitter for the next two years will either be doubling your money or losing it all: Elon Musk, who paid $44B for Twitter, now reportedly claims it’s worth $20B, telling employees their stock grants would be worth the lower valuation and that he sees “a clear but difficult path” to $250B.

Also, and to be fair, if you do contract rabies there is no antidote or cure, and you die 99% of the time.

Definitely saw some influence and similarities and wondered if it was just the Tommy Lee Jones or otherwise.

Last thing, Derka, upon reading the wikipedia after finishing it, it appears the author himself lamented how "GWTW" it came off as: McMurtry himself eventually expressed dissatisfaction with the popularity of the novel, particularly after the miniseries adaptation. In the preface to the 2000 edition, he wrote: "It's hard to go wrong if one writes at length about the Old West, still the phantom leg of the American psyche. I thought I had written about a harsh time and some pretty harsh people, but to the public at large, I had produced something nearer to an idealization; instead of a poor man's Inferno, filled with violence, faithlessness and betrayal, I had actually delivered a kind of Gone With The Wind of the West, a turnabout I'll be mulling over for a long, long time."[9]

@shadow_operative Thanks for the recommendation. Just finished the series. It was very entertaining and fun. It was definitely good television. It was a bit maudlin and soapy at times, but very entertaining. I'm not sure I have too much to add from watching the last 1/3, except that it was good seeing Call get a little growth from being the straightest of the straight man. All in all, the series felt like the ole saying, "trying to stuff 10 lbs of stuff in a 5 lb bag". The best analogy would be Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. The book, like Lonesome Dove, is 1000+ pages, full of rich character, plot, subtext and emotion and very descriptive. The movie tries to cram all that in to a limited viewing window. It's good, but not great, and skims the surface so as to come off a bit soapy in servicing all the emotional pay-offs, of which there are more than a few (like LD). Anyways, thanks for the recommendation.

Already in the 5's (unfortunately). Expected to be in the 3's by Spring (and now hoping Summer, but maybe more realistically Fall?)

Extremely sad and scary stuff, for everyone, everywhere, IMO. If anyone was holding on to any hope that their Christian and private schools were insulated from this madness, let things like this wake you up! School shootings are a possibility anywhere and everywhere.

I meant for free, as a normal order and point of business.

So can I refinance for an interest rate in the 3's yet? Or are we still in the 5's? Sorry, I don't understand the techno-mumbo-jumbo.

You summed him up in 5 words. New record.

Ain't this the truth.

What's the problem with getting a hold of this dog owner? Multiple people on this site have ROFLBOX's phone number and email address. Just ping him and let him know you know what he and Bruno did and the gig is up.

Uconn beats every team left by 20. Great, another blue blood basketball 'ship, even during a "down" year for them.

Without getting too much into it, until I finish the series, it's really good and entertaining. If all the Taylor Sheridan Western stuff is half as entertaining that seems to have taken the world by storm (yellowstone, 1883, etc.) then I can see what the buzz is about. The thing I can't help shake, however, is how much better the book has to be. There are a lot of scenes and situations that don't feel all the way fleshed out and don't hit the homerun that I think the show thinks it does-- a quick few examples off the top of my head: Gus leaves the bar and has that scene with the barkeep, the brutalization of Lorene seemed really glossed over, the scene down at the creek where Gus cries about Clara, and even the hanging of Jake (and Jake's character journey as a whole). I have to imagine the book does a greater job of developing all these for maximum emotional impact (and I've heard as much about the book which is why it's been on a shelf to read for years). I reckon I'll never get around to reading it, so this is as good a fascimile as any. There I go talking like Gus now.

Yep

To be fair, your Mavs posts aren’t exactly good, either.

Finished the halfway mark.

Kidd needs to coach college where he can do things like punitively bench his better players because he doesn’t like their style or doesn’t fit his style, and they have more to lose and that power dynamic works. His treatment of CW this year has blown up; IMO, and is a microcosm.

I’m with you except the “including Luka part”. Are you even a Mavs fan if you want to ship a generational talent, knowing that’s the only way to win in the NBA, to roam around the desert for another 40 years?