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  1. we are going on Sat.  about the only movies we go see in the theater are the Marvel/super hero movies so this seems to be in the same wheelhouse.  took no arm twisting to get the wife on board.  tween daughter may be a different story, but she doesn't know yet

  2. 13 minutes ago, texasdago said:

    One has to wonder... look at it this way... why do we have so many people with gluten intolerance and allergies these days?  

    I know multiple people who are gluten intolerant and have issues with the usual culprits but they find when they go to Italy and eat local food, they don't have the same issues.  So, is it something here in our food supply?  

    Portion size for sure is an issue these days.  

    https://firstwefeast.com/drink/2015/09/mcdonalds-portion-size-change-1955-to-now

    I mean, WTF, Starbucks has a Trenta size.  30 ounces.  Meanwhile in Italy... 

     

    so just google ingredients for bread.  it's some variation on flour, salt, sugar, yeast, water and something like egg or oil.  lipids soften up the bread and not really essential.  So even this gets into 'what oil to use?' 

    now the ingredients for a loaf of Natures Own bread

    Whole Wheat Flour, Water, Yeast, Brown Sugar, Wheat Gluten, Contains 2% or Less of Each of the Following: Salt, Monoglycerides [shelf life], Enzymes, Ascorbic Acid [ aka Vit C helps dough rise], Soybean Oil [lipid of choice], Vinegar, Cultured Wheat Flour, Monocalcium Phosphate [baking powder], Soy Lecithin [emulsifier]

    so nothing too crazy in there.  maybe you would consider soybean oil bad.  again i am not sure what is considered good/bad.  the few ing. lists i googled seem to use soybean oil.

    found this as well RE: gluten (source: the interwebz)

    The majority of American wheat grown is hard red wheat, which is high in protein and thus gluten. In Europe, the majority of wheat grown in Europe is soft wheat, which is lower in gluten. so that could explain the gluten difference across the pond.

     

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  3. so along the lines of 'why are people fatter now' is there any credence to all these different additives causing negative changes to the human body?  I see a ton of stuff decrying seed oils as 'toxic' to our body and i don't know if it's crazy talk or if there is a kernel of truth in there.  Lots of grifters demonize a segment of our diet and then sell 'cleansers/de-toxifiers' and then their own brand of 'healthy' foods.  internet/twitter is rife with these things pointing to some rando study and laying blame to big agribusiness.

    I am guessing but back in the day, stuff probably did not contain all these basically industrial by-products when a fat or oil was needed for production of packaged foods.   Was cottonseed, grapeseed etc.. oil used?  It's pretty easy to start with the facts

    - 80 years ago people were not this fat

    - ***something happened***

    - people are now land orcas 

    Then try and sell your own version of what happened and how your product can 'fix' that.  But something probably did happen to food that goes into our bodies other than we are probably eating too much and working desk jobs more.

    tldr -  is there some additive/ingredient introduced in the last half century that is contributing to America's obesity problem?

  4. 1 minute ago, Chad Fuck said:

    Because it is. 

    right, but are the majority of GQP voters demanding gun porn pictures from their politicians?  Is his primary competition shooting videos of riding around in a tank and firing mortar rounds at migrants crossing the border?

    At this point, if I were a feckless GQP politician I might distance a little bit from 2A nuts, amp up the T&Ps, and lament the sad state of mental health in country (while stripping away healthcare).  

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  5. 11 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

     

    i just don't get these type of pics.  I mean I know Jesus strolled around Nazareth with dual bandoliers of 50cal ammo crossed over his chest and a Barrett slung over his shoulder but the family gun porn pictures are just obscene at this point.  it is perfectly fine to just say "I support 2A" and if your position is to 'hold the line' with no plans to alter the wild wild west of anything goes, so be it.  But lining up your family and draping AR15s all over them as a Christmas card just seems grotesque to me. 

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  6. 5 hours ago, LonghornJones said:

    I got 3 separate ski trips (2 with family) this season, and now I feel like that should be the norm. My wife, however, has already mentioned that she wants to take a year off from skiing and go to the beach over xmas break instead.

    I can feel this annual tradition slipping away already.

    we've stepped up to 2x per year this year and last year going with the fam.  may try to make it 3x next as i was inspired by the pics from @JCHIL of Portillo

    Got back from Park City/Canyons last weekend.  Just great snow in Utah right now.  Almost too much powder on Wed as we were trying to get to certain places on the Mountain and a few of the trails were slow going where they were not steep enough.

    Son was dubbed 'Cocaine Bear' nearly everywhere he went in his bear coat

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    We stayed right at the lift on the Canyons side but skied about equal time over the week between PC and Canyons.

    We had a blast at the Kuchu Shabu restaurant in the Canyons base and the kids enjoyed 'cooking' their own food shabu shabu style

    This one was from Wed, when it snowed a foot or so between Tues/Wed

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    On some the slower trails i was like a ice breaker boat creating a trail with my board.

    Also, the doughnuts at the Cloud9 cafe (top of Dreamscape lift, Canyons side) are effing legit.  You have to haul ass to get there in time to get one. I think they make 2-3 batches and that's it.  We were 2 for 2 heading straight out and not screwing around (hard to do with kids) but people arriving 10-15 mins after us were SOL.   I think they have doughnut holes as a consolation prize for the latecomers.

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    Overall a great trip getting on the slopes for 7 days  before leaving on Sat.

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  7. 19 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

    Let me know when y’all start in on King James.

    I have feelings about that misogynistic asshole.

    That's the rub.  Can anyone here, with a straight face, actually believe that rulers and powerful, literate men would not change a few lines here, take out a few lines there to, i don't know, maybe keep peasants in line a little better?  Make their lives and their progeny's lives easier down the road?  Keep women and slaves in line with Godly mandate?  out of all the self serving, backstabbing, lying, cheating, double dealing that all politicians/rulers are into they said "Nah, we better leave these stories untouched before distributing to the masses".  Church leaders were like bump that giving to the church line up to a full 10% and we're in.  We'll even endorse holy wars, mark your political enemies as heretics and later on charge any especially mouthy bitches as witches for you at no extra charge.

    Maybe there was a divine message.  But if you think for one minute the original was unsullied by the men disseminating the message, you are a fool.  Just look at today's politicians trying to erase that slavery happened or banning children's books about 2 male penguins raising a chick.  

     

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  8. 4 hours ago, crash_davis said:

    Republican leaders on trying to decide what will resonate with their dipshit voters.

     

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    [GQP logic] but most with no health insurance, can't read and have mental illness are the same people.  plus 1 getting shot shot just reduces that total and drain on the taxpayers  [/GQP logic]

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  9. 1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    That wasn’t a function of their religion. They didn’t achieve their answer through a religious act. Religious people can do mathematics and science but that doesn’t make their mathematics and science products of their religion. If a Christian doctor performs a heart transplant, we have medical science to thank for that feat, not Jesus Christ. Doctors of all faiths, and of no faith, can and do perform the same feat. Isaac Newton was a religious man and believed in a creator God but calculus is mathematics, not religion. 

    sorry too good to pass up

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    I have an M.D. from Harvard. I am board certified in cardiothoracic medicine and trauma surgery. I have been awarded citations from seven different medical boards in New England; and I am never, ever sick at sea.

    So I ask you, when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry, or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death, or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trauma from postoperative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, you go ahead and read your Bible, Dennis, and you go to your church and with any luck you might win the annual raffle. But if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17th, and he doesn't like to be second guessed.

    You ask me if I have a God complex?

    Let me tell you something:

    I AM GOD.

     

    Some of this is that there are sooooo many religions and offshoots that some of them are bound to be right some of the time on some of the stuff.  religions are even evolving (heh heh) like the FUMC having churches split off because how dare gay people attend church or want to contribute in said church.  

     

     

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  10. would we have seen this if Timmy had not gone down for a few games?  It has been amazing and Dylan shooting the mid-range is just basically a cheat code with touch he has on display.  I think carrying the team with Allen out has unleashed the monster.

  11. 11 hours ago, Nivek said:

    Not really.  Some private schools have a different focus on education than the public school system and don't subject their kids to a constant stream of testing, they also can be more adaptive to the individual needs of students and provide more support for kids with special needs or learning disabilities.   If you have a kid with learning disabilities, it is a process to get the testing (which they drag their feet to set up), then a pain in the ass to get the results (they drag their feet for this as well) and then to start getting the ARD meetings and IEP plans in place.   Then trying to hold them accountable to help them support your kid is another challenge. 

    But there is something to keeping the poors away as well.  Some kids are a challenge and it seems the school system's options are hamstrung.   

     

    yeah, once we found out both our kids were dyslexic, they were moved (1 from private and 1 from public) to a private school specializing in teaching kids with learning differences.  It is a stone cold fact that the cost of this education would preclude 'poor' people from sending their kids their sans scholarship.  As a dumb hick from a small town with 1 HS and no real private alternatives, i was astounded at the cost of private grade/high schools when i moved on from college to Dallas and had kids.  but soon found the cost acceptable when the need arose.  

    we did not want to fight the good fight with public schools and had the means to go the private route.  

     

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  12. i'm back in baby!  like all important financial decisions i blindly follow an anon person on a private discord for most of my crypto advice.  he gave the buy signal back on the 10th and damned if he did not call it pretty well this time.  got about a 1/3 of my crypto fun money back in the market and only have taken the smallest of profit so far.  just letting it ride in alts for the time being.  probably the first crypto buy in ~12 months or so

    you too should start buying as i will need exit liquidity soon (probably).

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  13. 1 hour ago, Incredulity said:

    plus shipping I would imagine.  Also, probably 0% chance of a 50ft piece making it intact.

    Do you have a decent table saw?  

    Or look around for a small custom cabinet shop.  I would think you could get something worked up for half that price, even if they were fucking your eyes out.

    the internet place was just for a 50 inch piece, which is what i need.  

  14. 15 hours ago, Jkwellborn said:

    You mean like a wooden dowel rod?

    yes but those seem too heavy. needs to be made of a lighter wood and ideally would only be a half circle for the shape

    2 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

    Looks like you can get exactly what you need at shutterpartsdirect.com, but it won't be cheap.

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    yeah, i was kinda balking at paying ~$70 for a 30 cent piece of wood.  i could get a 20' piece of molding for ~$2 that is similar but not quite 'right'

  15. 35 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    also first BM that wasn’t pure liquid. It wasn’t solid but it wasn’t all liquid. Baby steps shits

    FIFY

    Keep it up!  real food around the corner.  

    I continue to sabotage my vague notion of eating well.  Discovering that my work place has Twix ice cream bars in the snack court has not helped. 

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  16. maybe you handy people can help me out.  trying to find a shutter control rod for plantation blinds.  all the shutters  are wrecked in my sons room with 90% of the blinds detaching from the frame due to them being old the plastic pegs crumbling form the sun exposure i guess. 

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    I drilled out and replaced all the fittings and put back most of the shutters so far, but the control rod for one of the windows was broken.  the rod is flat on one side and a rounded half-circle on the other.  I just need one ~50" rod (insert jokes here). 

    Perusing HD i did not see anything. I could maybe make a piece of molding work and it's cheap at $2.  Web searches turned up a few leads, one would not long enough.  would have to get 2 shorter ones and i guess dowel them together.  cost ~$20.  The only ready to go product i saw wanted $90 for a composite plastic piece 70" long.  

    any ideas on where to source a single piece?

  17. watched the Jon Oliver piece last night.  The part when he/his admin directed cops to go in guns drawn and arrest poor (mostly/all black at least from the video) people for voting issues that happened in some cases years ago was crazy.  Even the cops were like WTF am i doing here dragging people out of their homes on this BS.  all of it to manufacture some tiny shred of evidence that tougher election security is needed.  Hurting people for an insignificant bullet point in his narrative. 

     

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  18. 18 hours ago, rage-a-holic said:

    They said they couldn't bury the bodies due to the frozen ground, which is absolutely true.

    we are not talking permafrost here.  does the ground get 'frozen' because of a colder winter?  asking for a Texan...

     

  19. On 3/2/2023 at 11:30 AM, JCHIL said:

    The view from our room at Portillo looking out on Inca Lake and the famed Tres Hermanos in the distance - the rooms are well kept and comfortable but no luxuries- no tv in rooms for example EEAB965C-C1AF-4752-8B2A-B05726248A6E.thumb.jpeg.4e03d9a7fe2e52dcf4f1e618bd235e16.jpeg

    steep terrain if you want it 

     

    the hotel only sells week long stays and now what they call mini weeks (no day skiers) so it remains uncrowded and exclusive - breakfast, lunch, apres and dinner - they assign you a table and times for dining - very cool because you end up meeting a lot of folks from around the world including ski teams there from around the world train there- highly recommend

     

    wow! that place looks amazing.  need to look into going skiing in summer now

     

    Park City UT just got ~2 feet of snow.  Wish we were there this week, but next week looks pretty good as well, but not 20+ inches.  Flying out on Friday

     

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