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  1. Could be.  I had a serious motorcycle crash 4 years ago where I was knocked cold and was out for at least 20 minutes (was wearing a helmet).  Between football, motor-cross and (starting in my late teens) boxing, I've probably been knocked out 6 or more times and have had my "bell rung" more times than I can recall.  
    The last year my memory has gotten much worse and I get severe headaches several times/month and cannot focus on anything for shit. 
    I have an appointment w/ a neurologist in a couple of weeks to try and see what's going on.

    Hope you put a reminder on your calendar for that appointment, so you don’t forget it.
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  2. 2 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    I feel like I can remember every face I've interacted with. But I have to be incredibly intentional to remember someone's name, even if they just introduced themselves one minute prior.

    Also me.  I had a friend in law school who knew everyone's name - she had a gift.  She'd tell me a story about someone by name, and I'd look at her all puzzled.  She'd then say "guy who wears a white ballcap, third row in Property class," and I'd know EXACLTY who she was talking about.  I could visualize him, his hat, exactly where he sat, etc.  All the visuals....but not the name.  I did a lot of "good to see you, chief" in law school.

  3. 4 minutes ago, Dutchrudder said:

    Granted this is Trump we are talking about, so who knows what the hell he would actually do, but this is from a few weeks ago:

    As president, Trump imposed tariffs with a flourish — targeting imported solar panels, steel, aluminum and pretty much everything from China.

    “Tariff Man,” he called himself.

    This time, he’s gone much further: He has proposed a 60% tariff on goods from China — and a tariff of up to 20% on everything else the United States imports.

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/trump-favors-huge-new-tariffs-how-do-they-work

     

    So a 20% blanket tariff on everything is incredibly stupid and it will drive up costs of many many things is my main point. I don't even think you disagree with that part, which was the main point of my conversation with a guy who thought inflation is a problem now and we were better off 5 years ago. I'm saying it will be much worse under that policy rather than the current administration plan.

    Of course you have a pony that the revenue from those tariffs will be significant. However, I don't think it will be offsetting the cost that regular people like you or I spend on those products. the money will instead be redirected into some big government coffers and used for something else that probably won't benefit us peasants. 

    Without derailing the whole thread into a tariff discussion, tariffs are not blanket good or bad.  Judicious and appropriately targeted tariffs have their place, and can have a positive overall effect.  And, blanket, non-thoughtful application of tariffs can be economically costly and devastating.  They are a powerful medicine, to be administered deliberately and sparingly.

    See, e.g., the solar panel issue.  China was vastly undercutting and dumping.  Trump imposed tariffs on them, Biden left them largely in place, and further supported the domestic solar manufacturing industry via the Inflation Reduction Act.  As a result, American manufacturing of solar panels, a good of great economic and strategic importance, has taken off and prospered.

    "I'ma tariff EVERYTHING!" is stupid as shit.

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  4. 8 minutes ago, Wiler77 said:

    My son was learning about inner voice vs outer voice in 3rd grade last year.  I think it was the school's attempt to get kids to not make fun of each other.

    My wife and I were having a discussion about the difference to understand what his takeaway was, and to try to push it a little further than the school did.

    He understood the concept fine, but he closed the conversation with something that is absolutely perfect if you knew him.

    "My inner voice pretty much always says "DO IT! DO IT!'"

    I mean, you already said he was a boy.  So....standard practice there.

  5. Last night, I had a late meeting across the street from Randall's.  Needed to grab a quick dinner.  They had these marked down half-price:

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    Let's just say that the finished product.....did NOT look anything like that.  More of a pizza soup sorta thing, all watery and shit.

    I should have stuck with the classic...

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  6. 1 minute ago, Samson's Wig said:

    It's incredible how differently people experience the world, yet we're all, at times,  a bit guilty of assuming everyone sees things the way we do (or at least not offering some grace for when they don't). 

    QFMFT.  Incredibly well-said.  Every package of how we see the world comes with advantages and disadvantages.  As an adult with some experience and wisdom and scars, this cartoon (which is of course simplified for effect) rings true:

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    The way my memory/brain works suits me very well in certain contexts (I can think quick on my feet, can draw upon a diverse memory bank of resources, evidence, etc....so it really helps in my chosen career).  But it comes with downsides and shortcomings.  The way my wife's brain works suits her incredibly well in what she does, which is slower, more deliberate, and process-oriented.  Two different types of people living together for so long has forced us to have grace with each other.  She gets annoyed as hell with my fifth-gear anxiety, thinking ahead, visualizing all possible permutations and outcomes of every scenario (it often is a shitty way to go through life)....but she knows that's how I process information, so she is patient, and gives me space.  I get annoyed with her need to close the loop on any particular piece of information, and her insistence not to proceed until she gets that last piece of the puzzle (she is uncomfortable proceeding on what she sees as incomplete information).  So, I've learned to be patient, and to give her time and space to get that info. 

    Thanks for posting what you posted.  Grace is important.  Some of us (me) are pretty shitty at it on a regular basis.

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  7. 56 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

    I agree with about 95+% of all that. 

    Here's one thing to consider: If we went through K-12 schools and fired all the shitty teachers Terminator-style, who would we replace them with?

    We're going to have to pay more to attract more talent, then we can start the purge. 

    It would help if the dominant segment of our society didn't relentlessly characterize teachers as demons bent on hurting our kids.  Do a job that doesn't pay well?  I mean, maybe.  Do a job that doesn't pay well...AND have crowds of screaming banshees calling me the devil?  Fuck that shit.

    Teachers are the enemy now.  That's a guaranteed recipe for disaster and the destruction of public education.  Which, of course, is the goal of the people actually driving that agenda.

    We aren't going to make life better for public school teachers, because we want to end public education.

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  8. 5 hours ago, Captainant said:

    @Anastasis come on down and claim your award for the cessation of barbarism in Texas! Thank goodness we can all enjoy success stories like this on the regular now

    https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban

     

    The fetus was on the verge of coming out, its head pressed against her dilated cervix; she was 17 weeks pregnant and a miscarriage was “in progress,” doctors noted in hospital records. At that point, they should have offered to speed up the delivery or empty her uterus to stave off a deadly infection, more than a dozen medical experts told ProPublica.

     

    But when Barnica’s husband rushed to her side from his job on a construction site, she relayed what she said the medical team had told her: “They had to wait until there was no heartbeat,” he told ProPublica in Spanish. “It would be a crime to give her an abortion.”

     

    For 40 hours, the anguished 28-year-old mother prayed for doctors to help her get home to her daughter; all the while, her uterus remained exposed to bacteria.

     

    Three days after she delivered, Barnica died of an infection.

    What you fail to understand that women suffering and dying is a feature, not a bug.

    What is the most effective way to send the message to an entire demographic that they have no worth except whatever worth you deign to allow them to have?  Take their lives in your hands....and end them...with no consequences.  We (Texas Republicans) literally have the power to decide whether you live or die.  You have no say in the matter.  THAT'S power.

    This is just a message being sent.  It will be sent repeatedly until you inferior serfs get it through your heads: anything you have is subject to the whims of the GQP; they can and will take whatever they want, whenever they want...including your life.

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  9. Just now, DigglerontheHoof said:

    Whatever is the opposite of a photographic memory is what my dumb ass has.  

    Actually, I've always liked to tell people I have a pornographic memory -- I remember everything just like everyone else does, except everyone is naked.

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  10. 21 minutes ago, F250 said:

    I don't think photographic memory is a thing.

     

    12 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    What do you mean? My dad could read a magazine and if you quoted something from it he could tell you what page it was on and where on the page it could be found. I have a friend who could take the boards and recall about 70% of the questions afterwards.

    Yeah....it's definitely a thing.  For most of my life, my memory functioned (and mostly still does) like your dad's.  Seriously, during exams, I could just recall the board, or a page of the book, and "read" the info I needed to get the answer.  I can describe places I've been in painstaking detail (like "there were this many tables, the chairs had curved backs, and at the table in the corner, they hadn't fully re-set it because one of the chairs was pulled out").  That ability has declined in recent years as my overall memory ability has declined, but it's still there to a large degree.

    I also have synesthesia (as does my daughter), where different senses/ways of perception intersect.  For example, numbers have colors, and always have.  Funny enough, as I got older.....the colors changed. Wanna guess what to?  The fucking color of numbers on the balls on a pool table.  When I realized that, it made me chuckle.  When I was real little, numbers also had music that matched them. Just a few notes, but I knew and could hum the notes that went with the number 4 (that went away by late elementary school).

    And like I mentioned....it makes for a cluttered, harried place in your head.

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  11. 11 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    Serious question: Is law school at a place like Michigan so easy that a true dumbass can graduate manga cum laude from there? 

    Michigan is a great law school.  So is Texas.  I know dumbass lawyers from each place.  The admissions process can only screen for so much.  Some dipshits get through.  And once you are IN such a law school, there are two things that are really hard to do: end up in the top 5%, and end up in the bottom 5%.  But there are people who end up in each slot.

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  12. 6 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    I can always use another excuse for poor golf.

    In all seriousness though, it sounds like this may be related to people who have a photographic memory.

    So, without watching a long video....what's the relationship? 

    Because I have both (or at least elements of both).  I definitely have a detailed internal monologue - I speak things in my head, I remember voices perfectly, can pull up a song in my head, all of that, quite easily.  And I have a photographic memory (although it doesn't function as well as it used to...age has degraded it a bit).     When studying, I could truly pull up an image of the page of the text book and read what I needed during the test.  When I read a novel, I visualize the story (often with sound/verbalization included) as I read.  In other words, as I read Lonesome Dove, I had a whole movie playing out in my head that - if i had any artistic skill - I could have sketched out in detail.

    My wife has a different memory, she uses different mnemonic devices to remember things, and it's really effective - just different.   Pretty sure my son's head works that way too.  My poor daughter...her brain works just like mine.  It can get....noisy and cluttered.

    The funny thing is, I imagine for all of us, it's functionally impossible to imagine how other people do it.  I can't imagine how it would be NOT to have an internal monologue.

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