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Aqua Buddha

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  1. Yeah, you'll see towns that are 20 miles away but two hours apart. It's all VERY rural except maybe Charleston but if you're a WFH type, need to be somewhat tethered to the NE, and you're outdoorsy, Charleston is a solid option. Instead, those types all went to Asheville.
  2. WV really should be a lot better as a state. It's very pretty and with it's proximity to the cities in the NE, it should easily be a good remote/WFH/2nd option for a lot of people. There are a lot of rural places in America that are ugly and in the complete butt fuck middle of nowhere. WV is not one of them.
  3. WSJ had a great story some time back about the demographic collapse in the state of West Virginia, due to everyone moving away, low birth rate, and no one moving there. The state is all olds at this point to the point they can't keep some businesses open five days a week because they don't have young workers. However, their state ledge was obsessed with immigration at the border. No ideas about how to get people to move to WV but just keep certain people out. Meanwhile, the local restaurants can't stay open for dinner anymore.
  4. He fits the image of what they think a rich and powerful businessman looks like. These people are generally rural/exurban and have no idea what an actual CEO or billionaire looks like. In real life, they're slender, in shape, wear a quarter zip and form fitting jeans and Allbirds. Women would wear a pant suit or a blazer with jeans and smart shoes. We all know this on this board because of our backgrounds but they don't.
  5. This. I've always said this about campaigns in general but debates specifically. The candidate has to look presidential and an example is that are they believable as a CEO or senior executive at a major company. Trump does not look like a CEO at all, which is why he's not popular with white collar types who realize he's a fucking buffoon. Blue collar or rural types think all exec's look like that and they don't. Harris looks the part. Biden was too old. Hillary looked the part but came with baggage. Obama looked the part. McCain didn't. Mitt looked the part. A debate won't win the election but it can lose it.
  6. "Hi, I'm Kamala Harris. I'm running for Vice President. How long have you worked here? That's great. Can I get some spices?"
  7. NYT Pitchbot: Trump is crazy. Why this is a problem for Harris.
  8. In all fairness to Jerry Jones, he's a much better businessman that Trump. Trump told a story once that he had the chance to buy the Cowboys but passed. That story is absolute horse shit but, if true, it would be one of the dumbest decisions ever. He was bankrupting casinos at that time if memory serves correct. Jerry paid like $200M for the Cowboys and the stadium and it's all worth $10B now.
  9. This here. Financially and ego wise, Jerry cannot let the Cowboys tank even if it makes sense in the long run. A 10 win team that loses in the first round of the playoff keeps them relevant and if anyone can lose in the first round after winning 10 games, it's Dak.
  10. By the time he retires, he'll have made between $500M and $750M on and off the field combined and have maybe 3-4 playoff wins to show for it. (He has 2 now.) Do not feel sorry for him.
  11. OU offense is terrible and the coaching is even worse. I don't understand the scheme or the play calling.
  12. Will people stop pretending that Deon Sanders is a legitimate head coach? They're awful.
  13. Maybe they're allocating only a few lower end models to some mass chains then. Not sure....
  14. I may me wrong, then. Although, those models and price points aren't on the Lucchese website. Maybe they're old inventory and they haven't sold through yet....? Someone up thread posted that Cavender's gets a very small allocation so maybe that's it. I didn't think they were getting any and that was pretty recent.
  15. Harris should declare herself the winner on ejection night if it’s obvious.
  16. That's the same guy that bagged on Simone Biles.
  17. I liked him when the book came out. The more I've learned about him lately, I think he's a latent but self hating gay. (Pretty text book, actually.) About his eyes, I was surprised to learn he's only 39. He's 11 years younger than I am and if you color the hair, he looks 5-10 years older.
  18. I'm not even pre med but I think I could tell the difference between a spleen and a liver. I at least know (in general) where they're at and the size difference.
  19. A Florida surgeon mistakenly removed a man’s liver instead of his spleen, causing him to die on the operating table, a lawyer for the man’s widow alleges. William Bryan and his wife, Beverly Bryan, were in the Sunshine State visiting their rental property when he began experiencing “left-sided flank pain,” Beverly Bryan's attorneys said. He was admitted to the hospital for further evaluation, and although the Bryans were reluctant to have surgery in Florida, they were persuaded by Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky, a general surgeon, and Dr. Christopher Bacani, the hospital’s chief medical officer, that he could experience serious complications if he left the hospital’s care. Shaknovsky performed a hand-assisted laparoscopic splenectomy on William Bryan, Zarzaur said, which had deadly consequences. “Dr. Shaknovsky removed Mr. Bryan’s liver and, in so doing, transected the major vasculature supplying the liver, causing immediate and catastrophic blood loss resulting in death,” the statement said. “The surgeon proceeded with labeling the removed liver specimen as a 'spleen,' and it wasn’t until following the death that it was identified that the organ removed was actually Mr. Bryan’s liver, as opposed to the spleen.'” Shaknovsky told Beverly Bryan her husband’s spleen was so diseased that it was four times bigger than normal and it had moved to the other side of his body, Zarzaur alleges. But in a typical human body the liver exists on the opposite side of the abdomen and it is much larger than a spleen, he said. According to the Cleveland Clinic, the typical human spleen is roughly the size of an avocado, and the typical human liver is roughly the size of a football. “The family was informed that Mr. Bryan’s spleen, the root of his original symptom profile upon presentation to the hospital, was still in his body and appeared with a small cyst on its surface,” the statement said. Shaknovsky had made a similar mistake in 2023, removing portions of a pancreas instead of an adrenal gland, in a case that was settled privately, Zarzaur said. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-surgeon-mistakenly-removes-patients-liver-instead-spleen-causi-rcna169614
  20. There is also the hidden vote after Dobbs. It's been consistent in that all of the polls under represent the Dems by 5-8 points.
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