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All you tractor driving kids probably had those uppity green tractors. My dad didn't go for that. I learned to plow the orchard (at 11 yo) on a glorious white and blue full size Mitsubishi tractor. (Young me thought of the green things as tanks, where I was a damn Zero!) I always wanted split brakes in a car; it just seems so useful.

Raw Dong Lover responds to the backlash: https://www.businessinsider.com/jaguar-boss-speaks-backlash-new-ad-campaign-woke-car-2024-11

In case of an investigation by any federal entity or similar, I do not have any involvement with this group or with the people in it Rex Kramer, I do not know how I am here, probably added by a third party, I do not support any actions by the members of this group.

Anyone have any first or second hand experience with a newer Anti-Depression drug called Exxua (generic name Gepirone). A lot of positive stuff online, but that could all be marketing BS and fake testimonials. MIL has tried just about everything on the market over the past 30 years with varying degrees of success and side effects. New is always promising.

I was a Gen-Xer and I roamed far and wide, but... My kids, who are now in their 20s, had permission to take off and roam, but they didn't. I'll go as far to say they wouldn't. I think part of it is society has just changed. The internet makes us more aware of dangers, even small and unlikely ones, kids have video games and instant access to movies and things that Gen-Xers never had. You don't have to be a sociologist to realize that part of my early motivation in learning to bike across town was the SI Swimsuit edition. When you get 4 channels on TV, and not even a Sears catalog, a 5 mile bike ride to Borders was not a problem. Kids (boys) these days lack any such motivation.

I have it as a bucket list item to watch a rocket launch in person. For a long time I assumed that I'd do a Florida trip to the Cape someday, but why watch an small rocket, when you can watch the biggest, baddest rocket of all. Port Isabel is only about a 2.5 hour drive from Corpus Christi where I have a kid going to school. I think I'm going to target Test Flight 7 in early 2025. Overnight in Corpus, and drive down early.

I'll have to go look for that article when I have time, but that description of standing desks fits with my personal experience. I work in software and work from home, so I bought a standing desk a few years ago. Sounded great, but I found I can't actually do serious work when I'm standing. Conference calls, sure, but anything involving reading, studying, typing, programming or analysing (so basically my job) is 3x slower, so I don't stand. It's been zero benefit during the work week, but where it has helped me is on weekends. On Friday evening I put the desk in standing mode and it prevents me from mindlessly sitting down on and getting sucked into work on the weekend. That may sound unnecessary, but when you work from home and you like your job, keeping separation is a issue.

We're not the only ones to notice this. In the Dr. Attia book on longevity (Outlive), he coined the phrases Medicine 2.0 where we are today and have been since the 17th century where doctors just find and treat diseases, and Medicine 3.0 where he says we need to be where it "shifts the model of care from a focus on disease treatment to prevention—with a longevity lens." Does Big Pharma greed play into that, almost certainly, but I think it's at least as much or more because of your last statement. If a Doctor told an obese person who has otherwise good blood work that they need to lose weight, they would get blasted because there are "no problems". The reality is excessive fat is a ticking time bomb. Easier to just treat the problems.

Remember the game Chutes and Ladders. My wife went from peri-menopause to having a Hysterectomy with ovary removal which is a shortcut to full Menopause overnight. That was fun. No ovaries, no estrogen. Titrating HRT took months longer than I would have expected; not sure if it's always that way. This is a football board; we wouldn't know a menopause thread if it kicked us in the logo.

Dr. Peter Attia's book (Outlive) listed upthread was my gateway into focusing on longevity almost 2 years ago. His day job is to charge $100K to consult really rich folks who want to live long. He has a podcast (The Drive) that is also pretty good. More so than a lot of podcasts he usually is clear about what science studies are strong about, and what new science studies are hinting at. A lot of podcasts take one new studies and proclaim to to be the solid gold truth. One of his big talking points is not just lifespan, but also healthspan, living a long quality life. Diet, sleep, reduce stress, reduce alcohol, and keep blood pressure in check are all big, but two others I put a lot of time an energy into are: Building Strength. Old people need to be in the weight room far more than young people need it. Any serious podcast, book, or video about longevity should stress the need to do strength training. Sarcopenia is age related muscle loss; you want to live long, you have to fight sarcopenia by building muscle while you can and using it when you still have it. An 80 year old who breaks a foot and goes into a wheelchair is probably never getting out of it. When you get old and stop doing things like walking around the block, you quickly lose the ability to ever do it again. The more strength you start with the longer you can keep going. V02 Max. Runners have focused on VO2 Max for decades, but the Outlive book brought it to my attention as an important variable in longevity. V02 Max is a measure of your bodies ability to move oxygen through your bloodstream. As you age, your Vo2Max goes down; when it falls below a certain level, you can no longer walk up stairs, get up from a chair, or get up off the floor. If you want to be independent when you are older, you need to push it higher in your 50s or 60s. How do you get it higher? Unfortunately they only way is hard cardio that gets your heartrate up really high for minutes at a time. As for supplements. If, and that is sometimes a big if, your diet is well balanced, multi vitamins should do nothing for you. But I see it like an insurance policy, so I take a multivitamin. I also take Magnesium Citrate that I started when I began weight training; supposedly it helps with connective tissue repair. And I take Creatine which has a minor down sides and helps with strength training. While not a supplement exactly, I also do Testosterone injections since my natural Testosterone fell off a cliff around age 52.

WTF is this weak-ass response from the partner. It's like he going over to ask: "Hey why did you do that" Dude, he just took a cheap shot and knocked your partner the fuck out. Charge that asshole and drive him into the pavement.

To me, this is a true Holy Shit story. I really though there would be another part to this story that wasn't initially reported. Some kind of child abuse, drugs, starving kids, something. Nope. This actually seems to be just some I-know-better-than-you deputy arresting a mon for letting her 10 year old kid walk a mile from home on a road with a speed limit of 35? Holy Shit. By those standards every parent of a gen-Xer would have been shot. Times have changed. By comparison, I was 12 when I rode my bike over this bridge the first time. Speed Limit 55. 135 feet above the water. Bicycles and pedestrians welcome.

I think this is correct. Assuming the 2nd loss is to a ranked Aggie team and not Kentucky, we would have no quality wins. Win our last two regular season games and we'll make the playoffs win-or-lose the CCG. Lose to A&M and were out. There are just too many teams in the mix for the 12 spots. There 23 teams with 2 losses or less as of today. Army 9-0, Tulane 9-2 SMU 9-1, Clemson 8-2, Miami 9-1 BYU 9-0, Colorado 8-2, ASU 7-2, ISU 7-2, KSU 7-2 Indiana 10-0, Oregon 10-0, OSU 9-1, PSU 9-1 ND 9-1 Boise 8-1 Washington State 8-1 Texas 9-1, Tenn, 8-1, A&M 7-2, Georgia 7-2, Alabama 8-2, Ole Miss 8-2

If you drill down into one of the scores, the weather is showing as something like 1,42. 42 seems to be the weather in degrees. The one seems to be an AccuWeather code for sunny cloudy whatever.

In the lead up to the 2020 presidential election, my stress level and blood pressure were far to high for my well being. I had to turn off most news sources. I'm so much happier and healthier for it. But you can't completely unplug and still be part of the modern world, and I don't want to be completely uninformed. I still see headlines of stories as they happen, I just don't follow links. If something is still being talked about 2+ weeks later, I'll google something like "recap of XYZ" or "Timeline of XYZ" I get most of the basics without a lot of the emotion. I'm sure there are hundreds of news stories this year that would be rage-inducing if I had read or watched them. Am I less less informed than the old news-junkie version of myself; yes. But stress degrades the quality of life.