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UpperWestside

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  1. What this reminds me of is when you run across fans of some obscure band that wound up going mainstream. They got millions of new fans because more people were exposed to this cool music, but the original fans look at these new fans of the band, as well as the band itself, of being sellouts. I am going to watch because of Clark and if I can catch Bueckers when she has nationally televised games. Luckily I work with a woman who was a baller back in Palau and she represented her country on the court. We talk about a lot of players and she opens me up to the ones she really likes which is pretty cool. Clark is still why I watch, but knowing more from someone that played ball and loves the WNBA is cool.
  2. Really shows off the ball handling skills here. Make sure her open court awareness is set to zero. That was three double dribbles in possession. Jesus tap dancing Christ I would hide her from any exposure to young hoopers looking to emulate someone’s game.
  3. You know missing layups for you or I is whatever. Everyone that ever played basketball has missed them. However, NO ONE IS PAYING US TO REPEATEDLY MISS THEM. I mean how does her coach watch her make shooting a basketball look like she’s coming out of the trenches at the Battle of the Somme? It’s embarrassing for her and anyone that coached her that she cannot make the bunnies.
  4. If they’re going to do this they have to do it right. I want to see all of her creative ways to miss layups included in her arsenal.
  5. This cover seems, well, I don’t know what to make of it. Melo because of the memories of a volume shooter that never came close to winning an NBA title? SGA who does not seem to be all that well liked by anyone outside of Oklahoma? Reese instead of the reason millions more people watch the WNBA in Clark? I do not get this, but I also haven’t played an NBA video game in at least 15 years or more. Maybe their internal surveys said this would be a good cover I guess.
  6. Some of my professors work and teach classes from the museum. Really, really smart men and women that cover every imaginable aspect of the war and its aftermath. I do not like sitting in a traditional classroom, but I would make an exception for Rob Citino. Dr. Citino’s lectures are fantastic.
  7. Regrettably this is still happening in The Solomon Islands as well as other South Pacific locales. Neither the US nor Japan seem real interested in helping clean up the mess left behind so people continue to die each year from unexploded ordinance.
  8. He will not win another major. Barring any major injuries one of these two of Sinner and Alcaraz will win more majors in my opinion. Quite the lofty goal, but the men’s field has no one on their level right now.
  9. Alcaraz is the reason I started watching tennis again 3 and a half years ago so I’ll take him to beat Sinner. I hope he beats Sinner every single time they play in a major. To be 22 and going for a 3rd Wimbledon in-a-row is impressive.
  10. He is. It’s just a reference to some pictures he shared of a sailing trip he took in his younger days to The Marquesas.
  11. Suns are not a serious franchise. But I think we all knew that already. I eagerly await the next chapter of Beal’s career being spent playing alongside Harden and Leonard. Can’t imagine what might go sideways there.
  12. I think you know my man. Might be time for you and the family to take a new boat trip to Tahiti.
  13. Check for new posters in the UT basketball thread. If his children turned his WiFi back on and gave him his computer back he’ll be in there at some point.
  14. He needs to be sent to this place.
  15. What you wrote here is absolutely the point that was made by this film. It’s not “Heck yeah! ‘Merica!” stuff. This is what war is. It shouldn’t be glorified. When a person’s life ends that’s it. One mistake could get all of these soldiers killed and brought home in coffins. Anytime I read about the war drums coming to life it just means some young men and women are going to go lose their life in an older person’s war because negotiations between factions or nations failed and the peace was broken. The ending was hollow and sobering. What was gained for either side? Watching it makes me respect Americans that voluntarily sign up for this so that those of us back home can go and watch this film. You see in that hour and a half how a person’s entire life was changed forever. Just that short sliver of time did a whole lot of mental and physical damage to people.
  16. I walked into the Best Buy not far from me and got one on the first day. Got it with the Mariokart World and Tears of the Kingdom. Nintendo did some really good work on this and I thoroughly enjoy Mariokart and being able to just drive around the map. It’s strange, but it’s relaxing just driving and not doing one of the races. I am sure I am not the only person who thinks this and enjoys roaming around the map.
  17. Way smarter people have issues attempting to sound dumb. TFG does not have that issue. He was born that way and nothing has changed since then. He c an easily relate to morons and their lack of intellect or ability to critically think because he cannot do that either. It’s like if I attempt to engage Neil deGrasse Tyson in a conversation about the universe. Could I do it and sound as smart as he is? I could not and he’d figure that out pretty quick. However one of his astrophysicist friends wants to do it they’d be on par with each. TFG is just on par intellectually with the dumbest portion of society and that works for him. It would have been nice to outlive the broligarch issues, but I guess dealing with them now might help future generations that come long after we are gone. One can hope at least.
  18. Look they get a lot of expensive gifts like water and sometimes maybe even a free shirt that says “I walked 3000 miles to the United States and all I got was this shirt.”
  19. If there is an uprising at some point of the American populace it won't be because of war (Our military is not being defeated in any conventional warfare even with TFG at the controls.) or because people suddenly decided that we should be kind to immigrants. It will be part of the same reason Mussolini was sent packing and that's when the population starts to not have access to the food it needs just to survive. That could be a lengthy wait even with millions of people eventually being sent out of the US who prop up so much of the harvesting of fruits and vegetables we eat daily. When that happens, you'll see a collapse and all you can hope for is a new man or woman in power that brings democracy back. It's easy to say these things, but how each country handles a situation like this is different. Right now we're handling it, to be kind, poorly. I don't foresee a civil war, but food scarcity is as big a motivating factor for regime overthrows as one that has awful human rights abuses. It took Italy 20 years, a dwindling food supply and Allied bombing raids to get Il Duce kicked to the curb. We start to see millions of hungry Americans that aren't used to 3rd World food conditions and all bets are off on what they do to rectify a lack of food.
  20. The last part is why I feel we are more rooted in fascist Italy than Nazi Germany. We just have an actual military and industrial base that Italy never had.
  21. I can't listen to him talk. You might as well put your fingernails on a chalkboard.
  22. Good movie. I'm there for the dinosaurs because I loved reading about them as a kid. Seeing them on screen is always cool. Really good movie to take your family to go see. I used to work at a place where Scarlett was a regular with her kids on the weekends. By all accounts she's really nice and I am glad to see her doing well. She was the star of my favorite movie ever in Jojo Rabbit. She's quite the cool actress.
  23. Well of course there will be meddling. We are dealing with an openly fascist regime that is trying to squash anything and anyone who is against them. The younger Democrats are ready to take this stuff on, but the old guard that is all about decorum and making sure it's business as usual is standing in their way. The DNC is like a football team still running the option while everyone else is running the spread. It doesn't matter that option football is a dinosaur offense to them. They do what they've always done because it's what they know. Bernie is the only elder statesman that wants to push things forward. I really believe that the alienation of the younger Democrats will lead to a split in the party at some point because what is happening now is not sustainable when one party is openly doing evil things to a significant portion of our population with little pushback at the national level.
  24. I think that if we are still around in 25 years we will finally see a 3rd party, but it will be the young Democrats splitting off to form their own party. The national Democrats are a rudderless ship content to go quietly into the night. More AOC's and Jasmine Crockett firebrands need to emerge and less of the Schumer and Jeffries type of politicians who are abject cowards shirking their responsibility to stand up to the fascists destroying America.
  25. This stuff is just wild to see happening. It's not that it's unexpected considering the trajectory we have been, but man this is speeding up my finding a new country to call home. We get one life and that life goes by so quickly and we have millions of people that willingly waste their one life on being cruel.
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