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troph

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  1. Jesse Watters is a absolute piece of shit. https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jesse-watters-sarcastically-mocks-potential-rash-teenage-suicides the video is in the story. I’m on record with a sensible solution to the trans athlete issues and also on record saying it doesn’t matter the ban is happening and that’s that. I’ve made peace with it, it is what it is. all of that said, Jesse Watters doesn’t have a compassionate bone in his body. Fuck him and his “my team won” assholery. make America kind again. <— I’m going to make a hat that says this. Maybe a bumper sticker too.
  2. I have an Apple News subscription so I read some of the traditional papers - wapo, WSJ, NYT, LA times, also guardian, and others occasionally the tier two liberal (see below). I’ll listen to NPR and BBC in the car, that’s the sum total of my news consumption these days. Separately, I don’t think the liberal rags - like slate, vox, Atlantic, etc were reporting to get him elected, but I won’t watch the TV shows. I have no doubt CNN ran its programming to influence the election, simply to get more rage watchers. Not interested.
  3. The world is enough of a shithole, I’m not interested in aggressive banter anymore, you lead off with “that’s a load of crap”, finish with “get a grip” then come back with that retort - over a comment that I wish our conversion was better - yeah not interested. in our lifetimes, Texas loses a bullshit one game title to Wichita state, loses a heart breaker to cal state Fullerton, and LSU. Bump that percentage up to Arizona state, Arizona, or Cal State Fullerton and we’ve got 2-3 more titles. Given that Texas was often a higher seed, a team with CWS experience and GOATs for coaches, it’s not “a load of crap” to think Texas would win 20-23% of the time. There’s not thing to “get a grip” about here. Texas football conversion rate is worse given until now it was either a single game or 2 games to claim it all. Nice strawman.
  4. Your entire assumption is that 1-8 have equal chances. That’s not the case. So take your quasi logic argument and dump it in your 6th double of whiskey and swallow it down because I’m not interested. besides if you didn’t come in with a case of the rage head maybe we could have a rational discussion about it. night.
  5. This might be the best humble brag this site has ever seen.
  6. Fuck off look at the table. It’s just a fact.
  7. Fished the guad two weeks ago with a lawyer buddy and then struck out on the coast hunting reds last week. I think I’m going to take some casting lessons. Hard day, overcast, windy, water was low but fish weren’t really moving. Saw plenty too late, only had 3 legit shots. I need to increase my percentage from 1/4 or 1/5 I net to 1/3 or 1/2. my buddy’s first trout on the fly…
  8. For profit industrial media complex is a fundamental part of the problem.
  9. Man I was robbed of more baseball.
  10. We did this shit last year … lose in extras then shellack the next opponent.
  11. Yeah there are actually three systems right there. Sonos, TV/movies and audiophile. Wife wants me to consolidate, I’d prefer we get rid of the Sonos - need to build out 9 more in ceiling speakers to cut Sonos loose. happy to hear your thoughts but I’m against using the quads for routine TV like sports. I’d be ok with it for movies. Not sure if my caution is required. two diff systems + Sonos… TV and movies … Pure stereo music …
  12. @jimmyjazz helped me set that up years ago. I love the birdseye maple on the speakers. Might be the prettiest set of speakers I’ve ever seen.
  13. Paradigm R/L …. From my old A&B TV set up at our old house. I had to replace the Cambridge amp but got a similar one, same quads, replaced the turn table too it didn’t make it through back-to-back-to-back moves.
  14. It’s a hodge podge… Samsung 70+ inch QLED TV system is paradigm R/C/L and sub, Martin & Logan (10 inch) rear speakers. Yamaha RX-V679 amp. Still need to hang the TV on the wall, it’s been 3+ years. stereo is pro-ject turntable, quad tower speakers (I love them so much), Cambridge amp with DAC build in and I use Apple TV with optical to feed it digital files. then Sonos for whole house right now, soon to be replaced with Martin & Logan in ceiling speakers throughout when I can convince my wife to hook it all up.
  15. It’s gonna take some getting used to these manly faces, the baby face look was such a mainstay.
  16. Link pls? just got home …
  17. I made myself chuckle, and in the end that's the only reason why I'm here, to entertain myself.
  18. I'm very much in the "try everything before SSRIs" camp and just went through the whole gambit in the medical system over SSRIs. Doctors basically threw them at me during a short term health crisis. So yes, there needs to be reform. I think diet (including gut/brain axis health - and don't sleep on brain/dental axis health), exercise, vitamin D/sunlight, relationship quality, sleep quality, specific nutrient imbalances, redlight therapy, sauna therapy, and a whole host of other therapies that are not pharmaceutical should be considered first. In fact, I think traditional and alternative medicine (with at least some research support) should all be used first before pharmaceuticals. I'm not going to apologize about that view. I think it's the right view. As a side note, did you know most serotonin is produced in the gut? the brain and gut are deeply interconnected. there is little doubt now that diet plays a huge role in mental health. similar symbiosis exists between the gut and brain with GABA and other neurotransmitters. This doesn't even begin to get into the HPA axis (with adrenal gland function outside the brain) and it's interconnection with mood regulation. on these points, there is little doubt at all that when the human body is functioning optimally it is because we are doing the foundational things right like diet, exercise, relationships, sleep, etc. Unfortunately, the medical establishment pays very little attention to these foundational elements of mood and optimal functioning. As another side note, it's shocking that the incoming head of HHS doesn't understand the difference between addiction and dependency and for those reading a long - "addiction" is the intense craving that you want something, where "dependency" is where your body (in this case your brain) has adapted to the presence of a substance and uses it to establish homeostasis such that when you take that substance away, your body (in this case your brain) is thrown out of equilibrium and suffers certain effects until it can regain its balance. The other factor is "tolerance", where the body (in this case the brain) requires more of the substance in order to produce the same effects (or in some cases it simply stops working). The most wicked substances in this discussion - heroin, narcotics, benzos, alcohol, nicotine/tobacco, etc. generally cause dependency, tolerance and addiction. In addition, these substances cause active harm to the brain during use other than short term use. They are by definition extremely dangerous. In fact, you can die from trying to quit using most of them unless you are extremely careful. So the idea of going to a "farm" to detox from most of these substances is not only idiotic, it's also highly dangerous. SSRIs are not addictive and they generally do not create a tolerance nor do they do active harm. They are however, extremely likely to create dependency in those patients that take them. It is solely because of the dependency issue that I am so adverse to taking them. However, if after trying other remedies it's clear SSRIs need to be tried, then they need to be considered. And there is virtually no risk of addiction or tolerance in these medications. But back to the issue at hand, what this all underscores to me is the lack of innovation and discovery in the field of managing anxiety and depression, and that to me is inexcusable and something that must change. I think RFK is an absolute nut job and he needs to be ousted as soon as possible (I realize that isn't happening). I just hope we don't lose access to what we currently have available and the knowledge we currently have gained, and maybe, just maybe we can have a silver lining with a focus on other remedies in addition to and not in lieu of those remedies already available to us. I have family that uses these meds, if they are outlawed, I will have to help them get their scripts somehow because in many cases after decades of being on them - with effective results and no other issues other than dependency - there is no route to permanent cessation of these drugs. I am not cautiously optimistic though. It could be a bumpy ride.
  19. for a minute I thought this was a CR post.
  20. You have to actively search for all but a few of them - I mean go to the magnifying glass icon, type their name, press enter - to see their updates. It’s all trash now.
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