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  1. During the 1980s you also had the AIDS crisis so LGB folk were a public obsession much like TQ folk are today. There was also a push for visibility. The political battle included Equal Rights Ordinances in municipalities across the country, much like the school board fights over trans rights now as trans visibility surges. And like the substantial defeats trans folk are suffering now, so did LGB folk in the 1980’s. yes there are a lot of similarities.
  2. troph

    Getting old sucks

    well, my wife is now an orphan at 54 years old. Her mom passed away yesterday less than a week after my wife's dad passed. She was ailing too and hung on to see her husband pass, then she fell asleep that night and woke up only occasionally to eat ice cream. She passed very peacefully yesterday afternoon. She was a great mom, and an officer's wife following her husband from Crane, Texas to the military where she spent most of her time in San Diego or DC finishing up back in Texas in College Station. She was often left alone as her husband traveled for the Country and raised three daughters right by the looks of how dutiful and agreeable they were together in the final months of their parents' life. They will be buried together in San Antonio in a military funeral.
  3. You’re not wong about that.
  4. I hear San Diego is a nice trip for the kids right around New Year’s Eve.
  5. I had to turn it off
  6. Solved but it’s still going to take a few years.
  7. You’ve had enough eh?
  8. God damn when he’s on he’s fucking on. Best of luck Quinn!
  9. Jax is a hero. he's been up at memory care the last week with momma as her mom fades. He didn't always get to go when her dad was dying but Jax made it up there a few times. He's not afraid of the situation and just lays with his momma as her dad and now her mom say goodbye to this world. dogs are the best, but Jax is the very best.
  10. Man if you ever deserved a negatory, this is it. Merle is great but the sound in you head needs to be TVZ on this one.
  11. thanks for saying that. I'm happy to share. doctors especially the PC/GP doctors are squeezed so much it's really hard to look to them for expertise on many subjects and I find it particularly bad on mental health issues. I thought I had depression and anxiety before I came down with Covid this past summer but I really didn't - I had situational stress and sadness and a lot of emotional sensitivity. What I experienced July through December - just in terms of anxiety and depression - was debilitating and physical and I ended up looking at everything I could for answers. What I can say is the PC/GP system doesn't know about a lot of the non-pharma treatments and they go straight to SSRIs. I had at least 3 doctors tell me to get on them. If you need them and they work they can be a godsend, but you won't know that until 6-8 weeks or longer on them. If you have a temporary issue, they are a nightmare imo because it takes too long for them to start working, and along the way the road is really emotionally bumpy, and weaning off is weeks or months at a minimum. If they don't work it's even worse. In the end I decided on a number of treatments for my mental health through my covid struggle that seem to be doing the trick and I'm really fortunate I didn't end up on drugs like SSRIs or others that lead to dependence and long term use. Again, if you need them and they work SSRIs can be a miracle I just didn't feel I had the luxury to wait.
  12. They aren’t overrated they are not good for you. The fiber in whole fruit is what you need with the natural sugar for it to work right. leave the juices to vegetables which end up having much less sugar and much less calories. you can add fruit to your juices to mitigate the vegetable flavors but don’t add much.
  13. troph

    Getting old sucks

  14. this is when it was clear it had gone rancid but the friend updates where all you see is the glitz, glamor and happiness had it's own damaging effect. In the end, the perfect pretty is half the reason why you should dump it all. happiness cannot be found without experiencing sadness. and as a side note, those who try to fight the algo by sharing EVERYTHING including their sadness and mundane parts of their lives don't make it authentic, they make it even more insufferable. basically, there is no way for social media to be a positive anymore. the last time it was a positive was probably pre-IPO for facebook or shortly after that. it's all rancid raw chicken fouling up your life's refrigerator. ban it all.
  15. can we ban them all?
  16. it's actually easier without social media. get off my lawn.
  17. 💯 when I realized looking at boats, French Riviera and Tuscan villas, exotic sailing locations, fun recipes, tennis tips, and even friends updates made me feel worse I knew it was time to shut it down. I quit facebook in 2020 and IG last year. I check facebook for a few groups twice a month and IG for 5 minutes 2-3x a week. I don’t look to social media for any information. It’s purely to stay minimally connected.
  18. troph

    Landman

    I say this with a complicated sexuality - they both are vapid oxygen thieves.
  19. troph

    Landman

    Explains why his team always shits the bed too.
  20. Natural sugars are also ingested with a myriad of other nutrients, antioxidants, phytonutrients, fiber and other good things that our bodies need. A tablespoon of refined sugar or ultra processed carbs contain none of it. There is actually nothing redeeming about a spoonful of refined sugar.
  21. I’ve been dealing with the kooks for six months just sharing my experience. But if you want a high dose vit c IV or high quality supplements you gotta deal. I’m not on either side I’m on the less harsh pharmaceuticals side especially when it’s clear those drugs treat symptoms not the root cause. In the end the 5 top treatments were (1) stellate ganglion block (traditional), (2) EECP (traditional), (3) valerian root, kava, CBD, skull cap all for sleep and mental health (functional or non-traditional), (4) strict anti-inflammatory low histamine diet (non-traditional), and (5) ketamine infusions (quasi-traditional). what helped but hurt just as much was prednisone and Xanax. other things that I think helped but aren’t traditional include red light therapy, IV drips especially high dose vit C, and infrared sauna. what failed miserably was albuterol and other steroid inhalers. in the end I avoided long term use of SSRIs - fucked everyone wanted me on these - Z drugs for sleep, gabapentin for nerve pain and low dose naltrexone… all of which would require long term use under the circumstances I was in and/or significant withdrawals upon discontinuation. so in the end some of the kooky shit helped but yeah holy fuck there are some loons in the IV drip rooms.
  22. Which he could at times exploit for 5-7 yards if he so wanted to on a scamper. Quinn self sacks but Friday night the pocket completely collapsed with no openings if he tried to step up into the pocket. He’s not athletic enough to scramble back and outside the pocket around the ends.
  23. Not sure we are disagreeing - Oregon didn’t get the rush? Well they lost too. Alabama 2023 had to defend the whole field, I agree. Our WR were a disappointment this year (injury and attitude) and we expected an improvement. QE didn’t get much better either. I agree arch should help, shit I’m not sure Quinn can’t get those 3rd and 4’s if you scheme for it and give him a shot, sark just does not really like to run his QBs at all. I’m honestly surprised he had an arch run package. I hope that remains. I know arch can scoot off script so that will make a difference. I just think with serviceable backs you need to overpower the DL with a size difference or a numbers mismatch with designed holes so they know where to go, you can teach that easily, you can’t as easily teach the vision to find the hole. And to yours or someone else’s point, against OSU and Georgia you need IZ to work so you can counter act defensive speed to the edge. In the end it’s all interrelated which is why the “it’s all Quinn’s fault” bullshit on the La Jolla thread is so fucking infuriating.
  24. We had some success against OSU running the counter on the right side and inexplicably went away from it. I personally like the counters the best you over load a spot on the DL and create the hole and have a back exploit. If you have talent and weight advantage on the OL that makes the most sense especially when you don’t have the special back with great vision to find a hole.
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