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Celery Man

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  1. I'm on to season 4 in the latest rewatch.

    I was in my twenties when I first watched this and thought that Stringer was super smart. And, he's not a moron, but with a bit more seasoning it's interesting watching again and realizing how much fo a dipshit he still is (how self satisfied he is with his assessment of cell phone market saturation, his stupid roberts rules of order, him just taking Clay Davis' bait every time. And every single misstep he makes sealing his fate because he thinks he's the smartest motherfucker around. He would have been fucked anyways - i missed it before, but there's a phone call right at the end of season three that indicates he contracted some hitters (to hit Clay Davis). There's no way that whatever plan he had would have stood up to the scrutiny that would have come down with a hit on a politician. Avon was the smarter one out of the two of them, and he was a trillion percent correct with his assessment of Stringer being not hard enough for this right here and not smart enough for that out there.

    Another cool thing I've noticed a few times that I missed in previous viewings is the trick they'll do with the sound editing where you'll here some background noise and it will continue into the next scene at a different location. In season 2, they throw the guns that land on the boat, the boat's horn blows, and then it cuts to the Greek in the diner and the horn is blowing farther off in the background. Same at the end of episode 1 or 2 of season 4 when Carcetti is drunk on the park bench being told to move it along by a cop, and there's a police siren far off in the background, and then you're with Randy sitting on his stoop and the same siren is still going, much closer.

     

    On 7/12/2025 at 3:23 AM, cmontexas said:

    In season 1 do they ever hint at Wee Bey's family? I remember him running choo choo on the chick that OD'd and picking D up to feed his fish in his apartment.

    I guess a hitter like Bey would probably have his own little side place to get away from Yolanda but I wonder if they just liked the actor and Namond's dad was originally supposed to Bird or Stink or another less charismatic Barksdale lifer

     

    I always took it as Wee Bey is a free agent but he recognizes Namond as his child and at the very least, he takes care of his baby mama and Namond and perhaps even as a member of the family in a sometimes conventional way. While also having his own crib and drug-fucking shorties to death and etc.

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  2. I actually was having some second thoughts on the orange - my instructions say that jello is OK as long as it's not red or purple. Orange is close to red, but it's not exactly a niche jello color and you'd think they'd say it explicitly if they're listing which colors of jello not to eat.

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    I think conspiracy theorists have always been around: Social media just gives them  a louder voice and more visibility. It also gives them validation as like people flock to their site.

    But I always thought that conspiracy nuts were nuts on a single subject like aliens or moon travel. Is it really the same people who think microchips were in the Covid vaccine? Not that it would surprise me, but I guess I don’t even come across many kooks in my readings. Well, that is except for Surly kooks. 

    Combine the two paragraphs here for the change, I think. It used to be that you had people who were obsessed on a topic and did the work to go down the rabbit holes to become that type of kook. Now if you get on the internet you’ll inevitably stumble across a video that gives you special information making you smarter than all of those bookfag experts. If that kind of thing tickles your fancy, there are more right there and pretty soon the internet will learn to feed you that information almost exclusively.

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  4. 26 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Look up Peter Attia and his suggestions for women and fitness as they age.  Guy's amazing.  

    Per Attia and others, muscle mass for women is hyper-critical as they age.  VO2 Max, grip strength, mobility, bone density.  All critical indicators of physical performance and a radical decrease in all-cause mortality factors.

    I used to scoff at heavy weight farmers carries.  Now I can't get enough of it.  

     

    Buddy sent me his episode on the freakonomics guy’s podcast and so I’ve been listening to his book. Mid year and I’ve declared unequivocal victory on the weight loss goal. I don’t give a shit about muscles or lifting more than my what I functionally need to lift in my life but he’s convinced me. Figuring out phase two.

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  5. That’s interesting, it’s so close to almost just a Les Paul but definitely has a tele shape.

     

    another random algo guitar company, in the more dano/fano realm -


    never heard of ruby guitars before but this is kinda cool. Love the grain on pic 3

     

  6. I went in to my daughter's room this morning to take her to brush her teeth. She was playing on the floor, hopped up and gave me a big hug and told me she wasn't surprised because she heard my footsteps coming. And then she asked why I was sad, "why is your face like this? ☹️". She's 4, she's at an age where I'm not trying to hide things from her but I'm never sure how much to try and explain, but I decided to tell her about how there was a big flood in Texas and a lot of people got hurt, and a lot of the people who got hurt were kids and little girls like her. And I was happy because I love her so much but I was sad because I would be so sad if anything ever happened to her and there are other daddies out there right now who are that kind of sad. And she reassured me that she was OK, and then she said that she would be sad if something happened to her friends, and I talked about how there are little girls who are sad for their friends right now. But that it's good to love people that much to be that sad. And then we brushed teeth.

     

    I'd fucking die. I can't imagine.

     

     

    We were at the beach weekend before last and I was walking around with her holding a bucket, looking for shells. She was making a princess tower and we needed shells. A 60-70 year old guys was walking down the beach, and he and I made eye contact for a second as he was passing and he just kinda waved, and it was little moment. I can't describe the look on his face or his posture or whatever, maybe I was just in that moment realizing that I was on the flip side of one of the handful of days I experienced as a small child that then make up your entire "going to the beach as a kid" core set of memories, but it was like the guy was waving to his own memory.

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  7. At some point I had to read a bunch of different early Christian takes on Job. It would be interesting to go read those again.

    To the explicit question of how an elected official can say such a thing, it's purely a political move to manipulate voters into continuing to believe the opposite of what is true. They say it because it gives them power and that power has corrupted them such that they are no longer acting in service of a Christian God, if they were ever even trying to do that in the first place.

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