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dcbc

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  1. Oh, you're likely to hear me yell from hundreds of miles away.
  2. I'll try to give the short version from the weight loss thread. Back in 2019, after having surgery to repair a torn biceps tendon, I ballooned up to 249 lbs. Once my arm healed, I got back to working out and trying to eat more healthily, but couldn't get it kick-started. I got a prescription from my doc for Ozempic (covered by insurance) and within no time, dropped 20 lbs. From there, I stagnated for the next year. You just get used to it. After a year, we upped the dosage from 0.5 ml to 1.0 ml. Over the next three months, I lost a couple of pounds, but no major changes other than even more heartburn/GERD. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, I developed intractable hiccups. I'm talking, hiccups for three hours (bad hiccups), which would abate for an hour and start again. I was prescribed Thorazine, which did nothing to abate the hiccups and made me feel awful. I stopped that after a day or so. My doc said to discontinue Ozempic, but because it stays with you for a week or so, the hiccups continued. After about 5 days of it, I stumbled onto a Reddit where the OP said he had this problem and resolved it (after an ER visit) by taking a probiotic (Lactobacillus). Desperate, I picked some up, took two, and another two before I went to sleep, and it worked. I had maybe one more bout of hiccups, which abated quickly. I've been taking about 4 Billion cultures of Lactobacillus daily since then. I worried about coming off Ozempic and putting the weight back on as most people do. I got very serious about my diet (during the week) and, over the next four months, I dropped another 30 lbs and have leveled out at just above/below the 200 lbs mark. Honestly, I'd like to lose a little more, but I'm not taking Ozempic ever again. Intractable hiccups was quite convincing on that score. As with any medication, YMMV Edit to add that my non-medical opinion is that because Ozempic causes the amount of time food spends in your stomach to increase, over time, your gut flora/fauna gets pretty wrecked and a daily probiotic would be a good idea.
  3. Put another way, a trial court has no discretion in determining what the law is or applying the law to the facts.
  4. Correct. She asked them to submit competing questions. She's sitting on the issue, wasting time. He needs to move her off of high-center. So he's now asking her to make a ruling so that he can have a (presumably) adverse order on which to base his petition for writ of mandamus.
  5. Cross-repsonding. Is this a remote position? Asking for a fiend.
  6. Is this a remote position? Asking for a fiend.
  7. You can send it to me, and we can both watch it tank together.
  8. Doubtful. But he's not going to trial with those jury instructions without rulings from higher courts.
  9. What were his health reasons for retiring?
  10. It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
  11. I insulted no one but Trump. LCdS are amazing.
  12. Where have I seen that facial expression before? Ah, yes! It all makes sense. This investment opportunity seems appropriate for the penny-wise.
  13. Breaking Bad did it better. If we could just get Dark Brandon's face superimposed over the Walter White stand-in in the video, we'd be onto something. Democrats: "the colour is BLUE; the quality is pure."
  14. Can't remember if I posted this before, but it might be worth a repost.
  15. One Christmas (1989), my grandfather recorded the pay-per-view of the Stones' Steel Wheels show where Axl and Izzy came out and did Salt of the Earth with the Stones. It was pretty sick.
  16. Vigilance certainly is the key, and someone worse/smarter may come along. But I think Trump, to a large degree, was a perfect storm of awful and resonanting notoriety, and just any old chode with his playbook won't be enough to get the rubes off the couch or to empty their wallets further. This is my hope anyway.
  17. At this point, I've resigned myself to the fact that nearly all of his supporters who haven't seen the light simply are lost. There is no reasonable discussion to be had. When it comes to a couple of my family members, smart though they may otherwise appear, the best we can do is the detente of not talking about politics at all.
  18. Hey, he was hot, and he was hungry (and racist).
  19. "We" as in Trump and his ilk. Good. But the United States will continue to have elections without Trump.
  20. This is refreshing. https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03/our-trump-reporting-upsets-some-readers-but-there-arent-two-sides-to-facts-letter-from-the-editor.html Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts: Letter from the Editor Published: Mar. 30, 2024, 8:16 a.m.
  21. Warren's vocals gave me chills. Good stuff!
  22. I realized that I misread his post, and edited my response (too late). You've hit the nail right on the hammer: it's a matter of basic, human decency.
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