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Murfdogg21

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  1. It makes my head hurt that there are diehard Star Wars fans who have no idea who Ahsoka Tano is.
  2. If that's the best offer PHX gets, it's possible. He'd be walking on a team with Wemby, Castle, Fox, CP3, and the #2 pick (Harper?). Not a bad crew to roll with.
  3. I was interviewed in a documentary, but that's not a movie and did not qualify for SAG card status. In high school, I was in a gallery crowd while filming Tin Cup, but I don't think any of the shots or angles where our group stood were used in the final cut. My FIL was one of the dudes that opened the giant gate in the most recent King Kong reboot.
  4. New dean of meat judging?
  5. 619 is the San Diego area code. It’s his way of showing love to the folks back home.
  6. If the kid went to school(s) for 6 years and made straight A’s, how does he not already have a degree?
  7. Yao kept getting hurt. The team was excellent when they both played. They were good even when Yao was hurt.
  8. Why don't they just back up the hard drives, memories, and personality of every good droid and upload it into a new droid if it ever gets destroyed? The Rebels can have another K2 and Lando can get his sex droid back.
  9. My 8U son turned his first triple play this weekend. That was lit (and situationally very fortunate).
  10. Dumb orders by Draven. He should've said "extract him if possible for questioning (and we can execute him later if we choose), if not possible then kill him."
  11. I believe I understand your viewpoint on most issues in 2025. I've shared on other FDA and UHC related threads that I have a good deal of experience getting medical devices cleared by FDA. It is very frustrating and not efficient. A typical FDA review panel assigned to a new product submission is composed of a manager (usually 5-10 years experience but looking to escape to pharma/med device as a VP of Regulatory), a couple senior reviewers (30-65 yo lifers that got hired by FDA out of school and never left for whatever reason), and a couple junior scientists (the new hires with <5 years experience). Rarely do any of them have industry experience or perspective. They lean hard on testing precedent when it's outdated, but also apply new (more difficult to pass) standards on new products. What's worse is they keep products on the market that were previously approved under old standards and permit companies with old products to piggy back approvals of their products under the old standards. The FDA reviewers consider themselves thoughtful scientists, and often ask for additional studies, experiments, and data that are irrelevant to the product approval or indicated uses. In almost every product submission, there has been a negotiation on sample size and time duration because the FDA has no concern over a product's need on the market or the R&D expenses required for their additional asks. Brisket and thunderlounge took my post as naively supporting big pharma, when the current system favors big pharma over the startups and small companies.
  12. My 65yo FIL still makes moves based on this thinking, but fortunately for him I don't think any of his sales ever exceeded $500k in profit. This works for people at any age unless your lifestyle preferences outweigh your entrepreneurism. Buy a house you may ultimately flip, put money and sweat equity into it while the surrounding area hopefully appreciates as well, live in it at least two years, rent if you want, sell as long as you've lived in it 2 of the last 5 years, then upgrayyed and/or repeat. The millennials who did not buy their first home before covid are (somewhat justifiably) pissed, but there are still opportunities in most markets as long as they aren't demanding a Joanna Gaines-looking finished product in the most desirable location for under $500k.
  13. Maybe AI will be better at statistical analysis than the frustrated scientist lifers at FDA so Phase II and III clinical trials could require fewer subjects or shorter time points, thus less expense and time to market.
  14. I heard they are installing a splash pad for felons under 18.
  15. Except for one-armed hobo Mace Windu panhandling on Coruscant.
  16. Erskin was still with Mon Mothma in Rebels episodes, so he's alive unless he died in some battle we haven't seen yet.
  17. Olds shitting on jedi and lightsabers are like adults shitting on Santa Claus. Have they forgotten what first drew them in or what kids find entertaining? The Mando S2 episodes with Ahsoka and Luke were awesome. Cassian could've benefitted from some help from a jedi or two along the way if it was available. BOBF was poorly constructed but didn't have jedi/lightsaber action to blame. Acolyte was terrible because the writer was stupid and agenda driven. I'm eager to see how Ahoska S2 and Mando movie play out with Thrawn returning with resurrected zombies and *gasp* force sensitive characters.
  18. It may look that way to the informed audience, but from her perspective she's been fighting the Empire since she was a kid. Mother killed, father taken, raised by Saw, she was in Empire labor prison, father killed in R1. She was the only one with the balls to stand up to the Rebel Alliance leadership about 10 minutes before and inspired that crew to go on the rogue mission. So she is kind of the leader of the mission.
  19. I have my tiny violin out again. 6U rec ball semifinal against a stacked, undefeated team coached by two coaches of the select organization affiliated with the league. Besides about 10 bad judgment calls that went their way (can't argue with terrible judgment), we ended an inning because the umpires didn't know the runner interference rules (6.01(a)(11)) and then called ball game with 8 minutes on the clock when we were trailing by 2 with 2 outs on them. League denied to hear a protest.
  20. ...and she probably went directly to the First Order recruitment kiosk.
  21. There was a lot of smoke before the draft about mutual interest between Kobe and the Lakers and he worked out with their players. NBA teams were a little gun shy still about high school players in 1996 (Kevin Garnett was picked #5 in 1995 was the first high schooler drafted in the 1st round in 20 years). Lakers didn't pick until #24 (drafted Derek Fisher). Jerry West probably called every team before them to see who would trade out. They wanted to dump 28 y.o. Vlade Divac to make room to sign Shaq, so they found a sucker in Charlotte that thought Vlade was less risk than a high school player. Vlade pitched a fit and threated to retire which would have voided the trade, but he agreed to it 4 days later.
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