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  1. Imma start a fire I think
  2. Man this eagles rams game is making me feel so cold.
  3. Scams are easy to spot but they clutter it up when you really are trying to find things. We are looking for a pool table for the boys and 2/3 of the listings appear to be scams. I actually think fb marketplace is pretty good otherwise, better than Craigslist because of search and algo features.
  4. On occasion my wife uses Facebook market place to find shit. What a fucking cesspool of scammers. Hey Zuck, how bout you at least take down the scammers when they are reported, I mean that’s if you aren’t willing to actually do anything else to enforce civility and order on your cesspool of a market place. Lazy ass motherfucker.
  5. Here are three store bought juices I consume on the reg: all very low calorie, low sugar and no added sugar. Most are vegetable based and the one with pineapple actually leads with ginger, cayenne and lemon not pineapple. The pineapple is there to make it a bit more tolerable but you can see at 15 cals for 12 ounces there isn’t that much pineapple juice. I usually consume these in the morning with food. And I don’t use these as a substitute for vegetables but as an additive.
  6. @EE2B breast MRI is what picked it up. the drug is Kisqali supposedly a miracle drug.
  7. Haven’t had sex (yet) still don’t care. yeah finnebaum said those things on the SEC post game. Most of the Washington and tOSU losses are on him. Situational awareness, scheme without the right players, too much reliance on cute slow developing misdirection, not adapting enough in game, weird play calling, and for all his culture talk, missing that last “attention to detail” on the OL (penalties), route running, TE/WR blocking, and RB pass protection. He’s gotta dial it in that last bit and more than half of that is on him in the offseason. get it done Steve.
  8. From what I heard second hand the doctors were not freaking out with enjoy your life while you can statements so it seems stage 4 cancer isn’t a death sentence anymore and they were confident in the drug’s efficacy they did say “if it works” though. But yeah my wife was optimistic. still she’s got to be zero estrogen for life so there’s complication with that plus the drug. Good news is most common side effects are some but not extreme fatigue and some GI irritation. Could be a lot worse. We think the estrogen side effects will be the hardest actually - bone loss being the top one.
  9. So those who have tackled depression with some success - besides SSRIs*, what has worked for you? Having lunch weekly with a friend for support and don’t plan to go into attack or idea mode just there to listen but I’d like to have ideas. on my list: sunlight / vitamin D Diet and nutrient deficiencies exercise relationships loss of interest - focus on anything they still enjoy therapy Ketamine Red light therapy especially in the winter Sauna treatment transcranial magnetic stimulation Anything else ? * SSRIs are an option but it’s the only option most doctors offer so if I am asked I’d like to focus on other options.
  10. Y'all know what I and my wife have been through the last six months - and the last week if you visit the getting old sucks thread - well today she took her best friend to MD Anderson - best friend has stage 4 breast cancer - they can’t find it in the breast, they found it in her lymph nodes and blood. Turns out even mammograms every six months didn’t turn it up (family history led to more frequent scans). Not the lumpy kind, oh great. So far gone, they won’t do radiation, chemo or surgery. There is an immunological drug that’s been approved for about 5 years that could work but she’ll be on the drug for life and they also have to stamp down her estrogen to zero since it’s estrogen dependent. Won’t know if it works for 4 months. MD Anderson is the fucking tits though. Got this all done in two days, she’s on the estrogen blockers tonight will have the cancer drug by next week. I really hope this works, she’s an amazing lady, and my wife’s bestie. I remember when my wife wondered if this woman liked us and she was worried because she wanted to be her friend. Fuck.
  11. troph

    Landman

    There is an alternative, you can throw away your cell phone and turn in that Mercedes and ride a bicycle, hunt for your food and live in a tent, you’ll be the only one and it won’t make a damn bit of difference, plus I hear the moral high ground gets really windy at night.
  12. excellent prognostication, but you forgot new number 9. I've revised for you.
  13. Yep. play the Kiss albums backward and it says very clearly “I love Satan.” the possible good news is after the 1980’s backlash we enjoyed progress. Hoping we have the same coming in the future. Not banking on it given other factors like resource scarcity, climate change induced global stress, wealth inequality, decentralized threats like terrorism, and population density.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. You’re not wong about that.
  17. I hear San Diego is a nice trip for the kids right around New Year’s Eve.
  18. I had to turn it off
  19. Solved but it’s still going to take a few years.
  20. You’ve had enough eh?
  21. God damn when he’s on he’s fucking on. Best of luck Quinn!
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
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