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  1. I honestly think that the majority lesbian and BIPOC league must view Caitlin, and by extension all the new fans, as colonizers. We are all Chiquita Banana corporation and they are the wild and beautiful uncultivated lands occupied by a primitive style and game. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven for the WNBA old guard, it seems.
  2. Y'all back off Peppa. real ones know Peppa is INFINITELY better than Bluey and that the new Bluey dad's are nerds who were bullied until their 30's.
  3. Would you call that a....Portnoy's Complaint? (You can probably deduce a lot about someone that goes out of their way to make a Philip Roth, titan of modern literary fiction, pun on a WNBA thread)
  4. That's our concern, dude.
  5. The best analogy I can think of right now is, Iran finally got caught outside in the streets and is catching these hands from Israel and everyone is standing around and watching it. No Arab/ME are jumping in to help and the West is just yelling "Worldstar!". The internal calculus has to be one of two things: 1) do you let up on them and hope they've learned their lesson though they likely get down the block and barely within earshot start talking mad crap again before running off with threats of "just wait til I get back" and try to rally his friends, or 2) beat the pulp out of Iran to the point where they don't even come outside of the house again
  6. I mean, I guess. Iran has reportedly wildly changed tunes from "we aren't even talking about a ceasefire until we get our revenge" to "back channeling to american allies asking them to tell Israel to please stop"
  7. It's nuts. and a lot of the time it's like 30 year old Indians. Which makes me think they've shared some sort of "life hack" on their whatsapp groups "they won't be so mad at our horrible driving if we have these stickers" someone accidentally figured out when driving their 16 year old's Toyota Corolla. Another flavor of this, really. Brisket beat me to it.
  8. "Thank you for your attention in this matter!" is such a boomer old person closing of a low-wattage brain who is trying to sound professional and smart and underscore the previous unhinged and emotionally charged rant. It's not just crazy, it's zany at this point. Though I don't think we will "go to war" so much as we will bomb the crap out of Iran to almost zero reprucssion outside of some global tsk-tsking.
  9. The weird thing is the short kings are the super rich. Maybe BECAUSE they were short, they had to compensate and become smart and wealthy.
  10. I think there is some truth to the bold but it is denying the larger picture and recent "L's" that Iran has taken to weaken them. What I've read is now that because of the neutering of Hezbollah, Houthis and Hamas (THe triple H of terrorism) that Bibi senses a once-in-a-generation moment to seize on Iran's weakness (they really overplayed their hand and should have just kept rattling the sabre) and he sees he can take a step-function jump for Israel and reshape the region. It's a perfect opportunity for Israel to attack right now and that is outside of the Gaza stuff IMO. The flipside is that, while showing a little bit of fight, the ayatollah has now been more or less humiliated in front of the world (and even his own people depending on what you read / believe) and he has to be seeing a very hard landing for him. AND that's with the rumors that Bibi is kowtowin to Trump who told him to NOT directly target/kill the smack-talking Ayatollah...
  11. So what I did, for posterity, is I trimmed from 5000 shares bought @ $.16 to 3600. With the 1400 shares sold at like $.38, I used that money to buy 800 shares of OKC winning it all @ .67 So the net net is that if OKC wins I will lose $264. If IND wins I will win $3600. This is essentially a ~+1360 or 13:1 odds. 13:1 odds that IND will win, in what is essentially a best of 3 now ain't too shabby.
  12. My son was telling me about why my grandson was grounded from his phone. He intercepted a text conversation with a gal where she (16) was calling him (16) daddy and that they wanted to "lube up, no diddy". This generation isn't completely "cooked" as the kids say, but the conversation was while a normal and healthy heterosexual impulse for the young man, you need to treat the lass with more respect and not be vulgar, etc. and assume her dad can read everything you say.
  13. Had a feeling this would happen to the pacers do shaved some of my holdings to hedge for OKC.
  14. The swings were wild.
  15. I'm not one to discount any probabilities or likely outcomes and concede you might be right, but as my therapist likes to remind me, feelings are facts.
  16. You started drinking at lunch didn't you?
  17. I saw you allude to the WWIII scenario in the other thread as well. What are you thinking as far as the cause-and-effect that could lead to a "near global catastrophe" as you say, because I'm not reading or hearing this from anyone who does these sorts of analysis for a living (yet, at least).
  18. Depends on how granular you are being. Israel can't do this without the strategic alignment it enjoys from the U.S. (along with the explicit approval historically for such things, money, investments, arms, etc.). Did Israel have to call Daddy America and ask for permission to go to the movies and say they will be back by curfew? I don't think that's necessarily true. Especially when you consider the following: 1) Trump sucks 2) Bibi and Trump are already kinda fighting in a petty frenemy way when Israel got rebuffed weeks ago during the UAE/KSA/ME tour and by dealing directly with Iran and Houthis. 3) It's been reported that Bibi thought Trump was being played (strung along by Iran) and he's too dumb to know it and didn't comply to a direct request from this administration to not hit Iran yet 4) The mutually assured destruction chess pieces Iran had are all nerfed to complete levels of ineptitude so there is no "get back" now with Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas all being castrated. 5) Israel / IDF are some bad mother--watch my mouth! But seriously Mossad/IDF/Israel have shown some scary tight operational vigor for a country and population it's size. It's no wonder Wiz sold for $28 billion (j/k).
  19. Israel didn't do this with American good in mind. Is it an unintended benefit to American foreign policy? Sure. But lots of unintended winners and losers, as is always the case: KSA and UAE and Iraq will pretend to scowl but they’ll quietly cheer the knee-capping of Iran’s nukes (which they’ve long condemned as destabalizing to their oil money and region), Ukraine is happy in that it hurts Russian munitions/drones, O&G folks are gonna be happy. The funniest part is Russia and watching Russia try to keep a straight face when they condemn unilateral force and war on another sovereignity.
  20. Just read some pundits who think there is a chance that maybe Iran will now do a deal for sanctions relief, now that it's got a shambles of a nuclear program left to protect or leverage. Talk about "never split the difference". oof.
  21. sow*
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