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Mole

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  1. I did this once: for the Gideon Tech game. I didn't check the live score and just sped through the breaks. I caught up right around the last Texas drive where we didn't burn enough clock. I nearly lost my mind watching the game and I think I might be partially responsible. Never again.
  2. I incorrectly thought that the St. Louis and Blue thing was some kind of hockey reference or he’s an early jazz fan:
  3. I have to admit, it had to read that about three times before I understood it. “Underweigh” caused my brain to get stuck.
  4. The important question is, how does she pronounce pecan?
  5. Epistemology talk not going away. Come for the discussion of organizations harboring child rapists, stay for the David Hume talk.
  6. Fify
  7. My favorite part of troll threads like this isn't that they're in the wrong forum; my favorite part is how we all know our roles so well. Tom Herman would be jealous of our alignment. Greg Davis would be jealous of our self-sabotaging but perfectly executed plays. Beautiful execution of stupidity is in some sense high art -- a kind of sad genius. Passing a Turing test on any of these threads to represent either "side" would be trivial. I think it's best to assume that we're all bots.
  8. Steph vs. Lebron last month did really well with like 5 1/2 million viewers.
  9. SEC squabbles not going away. At least it’s appropriately confined to the Trump thread.
  10. Mole

    Fat People

    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/massive-dna-study-finds-rare-gene-variants-protect-against-obesity
  11. I was going to write some copy for Trump, but they beat me to it. My suggestion was: Donald Trump is Fighting for YOU against socialist Cancel Culture, big tech Censorship, and elite Hollywood liberals. Click below Today to donate your social security check to get your name on Trump’s Patriots List!
  12. Putting our military readiness and national security at risk to win the culture war.
  13. My dig was only at the language smack. The best part of the NBA playoffs for me is watching the best players in the world try to figure out each other in a 7-game series. I don't really care about new teams winning it or the drama of surprise teams winning it. I honestly don't even care that much about who wins or loses, other than pulling for horns to win. I just want to watch the best players play against each other. There's something magical about the swings that happen over 7 games as each team adapts with such great players. I agree that it's a lot less interesting when the best players in the world keep getting hurt.
  14. Do you find that ironic?
  15. Rigid prescriptivism masquerading as intellectual superiority is ironic. I root for the horns, so without KD, I'm on team PJ.
  16. Accidentally recording yourself venting your sour grapes over getting passed over for a gig, uploading it to the work server, and then calling it a “spy video of a female alone in her hotel room” is a bit much. Spare me the self-righteous victim status because you didn’t know how to work your phone. We all need a space to vent our ugly thoughts about colleagues, but if we upload those thoughts on the shared work drive, don’t be surprised if some bridges are burned.
  17. I guess Domi and JD Beck should go in this thread. Kids these days are alright.
  18. There’s a school of instrumental music pedagogy where you focus on timing entirely, ignoring wrong notes, missed notes, bad sounds, bad feel, etc. By fixing the timing and coordination, those other things eventually fall into place. Focus solely on timing and ignore how it feels or even if it succeeds. Success is measured by good time alone, not playing the lick well or in this case, making the putt. Focus ONLY on time. It works in music, particularly for the people who are really broken and having trouble. Complex, highly practiced tasks are less technique and more timing and coordination.
  19. He can’t talk, the only thing about him is the way that he walks.
  20. Repenting and atoning for your sins and the sins of your forebearers is one of the most foundational beliefs of the Christian faith. Any church that refuses to do so when necessary attests to their own uselessness. A church that claims to teach the true faith but demonstrates total unbelief through actions is a social club. If you’re looking to join a social club, you’d be better off not joining one so demented. Daniel Tiger has taught me that saying “I’m sorry” is the first step, then “how can I help?”
  21. Who knew the kayak place had a notary? For future reference, I’m pretty sure that you can’t get a replacement ID unless your sworn statement from the culprit that lost it is signed in the blood of a wild boar. Otherwise they don’t know that you mean business.
  22. If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work. If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames.
  23. Mole

    Fat People

    1. I keep track of everything I eat. I don’t track or consider the calorie value of exercise. It’s just an excuse to eat more. 2. I treat it as simple math; if I keep my calories below a certain threshold, I’ll lose weight. Maybe it’s more complicated than that, but more complicated approaches are easier to quit. Simple and doable is good. 3. I learned to be ok with being hungry. It’s pretty primal to fear hunger, but it’s ok to be hungry. It makes sense to me that if you’re losing weight, you’ll probably be hungry. Also, the worst part of being hungry is getting hungry. Once you get used to it, it isn’t so bad. 4. I prioritize foods that I can eat a lot of without getting fat. A steamable bag of broccoli is 100 calories, costs $1, and takes 3 minutes to microwave. It’s also very filling and makes you feel good. An apple is also about 100 calories, is crunchy and sweet, costs like 50 cents and takes 10 seconds to wash. I could have probably lost weight just eating ice cream, but I would have been even hungrier all the time. Once you get used to a food, anything can taste ok. 5. I’m ok with a lack of variety. Once I find meals that work, I beat them into the ground. The less thinking and figuring I need to do, the more likely I am to stick with it. Simple beats fun for me. 6. A lot of the stuff that makes us fat — junk food, fast food, drinks, party foods — we barely even pay attention to while we’re eating. We don’t really taste it, just shove it in our mouths. If I’m going to spend my calorie budget on something calorie rich, I stop and only pay attention to eating it. No eating chips while watching the game, no scarfing down a candy bar while I drive. If I’m paying for it in calories, I’m going to enjoy it. 7. la Croix Lemoncello tastes better than Coke/Dr. Pepper/etc.
  24. Mole

    Fat People

    I’m as white as can be; not a bit Mexican. I’m sure there are environments that are supportive, but my experience is that the push to eat unhealthy foods is pretty universal. It’s not just serving these things — that’s fine — it’s the active resistance against avoiding that stuff, even quietly. I just eat the foods I need to eat and don’t make a fuss about it, but there’s still the pressure. It’s subtle, and it’s a burden I can bear, since I lost weight, but it doesn’t make losing weight easier. It’s not something I noticed until I lost weight. I never noticed it before I gained the weight nor while I was fat. Once I wasn’t fat anymore, it was everywhere, and it’s hard to unsee.
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