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  1. I appreciate your fervancy in being a devil's advocate and critical thinker to ensure that the truth rises to the top. Seriously, no kidding about. I think every jury of 12 should have a @Thatguyon it and justice would be better served over the long run. That said, let's say you end up being wrong to woefully wrong here. Are you going to admit it?
  2. Super minority opinion here because Kanye has alienated everyone in the world, but the dude has been obviously traumatized and suffers big time from some mental issues. Well that's not the minority opinion, I think everyone agrees with that, but the song he put out (I listened to the above, assuming it's him and not AI or fake) is actually pretty brave and not a "dissing himself". It sounds like a cry for help for sure (10 percs, etc.) but also maybe therapeutic in the sense of letting go some of that heavy trauma and hoping to get som healing or something from it. And it's SUPER vulnerable in a way that is nearly impossible for most of us to fathom. Now 10x how you imagine, and imagine being in the black community and the hip hop community which is going to be vicious I would imagine.
  3. Gold chains from Amazon are timeless.
  4. You are arguing with a guy who a) has shown himself to be ridiculous with his arguing with actual attorneys when told he is wrong and his semantics and b) is super invested in the TMZ / Blake Lively thread and controversy. Quit responding.
  5. Jesus dude. If this is true I really feel for parents of public school aged kids these days. What a goat rodeo.
  6. It's wild to hear that mdma doesn't work on some folks (and Derka). I remember my first few times on ecstasy and can't imagine it any differently. One of the things I've noticed is that in polite society; executive-level meetings catered with food, weddings, and white table cloth restaurant meetings, etc.-- ordering a sugary drink like soda is a class signifier. Unsweetened Iced Tea or Water (or black coffee) is for men of ability and accord. Ordering a Coca Cola shows you are either a kid or poor. But I'm an older man so maybe the times-are-a-changin' and the kids and the tech billionaires and that will change with the new culture. Exceptions, like Mssr. Warren Buffett and our current President (arguably), obviously exist.
  7. This is why he got so mad at this at the time. Hit dogs yelp. Hope he gets the mental health and therapy help he needs.
  8. This is a good one.
  9. I can smell this picture. Warm dry barely burnt by heated electronic part plastics in the air. Heavenly.
  10. I was just thinking about this movie, which I too saw on a plane recently, and had the opposite reaction. What bad timing. Had the pope died in the couple of months in the run-up to the Oscars, this movie would have been a must-see and probably gotten a dead pope bump in the academy and voters minds. He dies 6 months later and now a handful of people will watch it on a plane.
  11. The night we went the cast then came back out after the bows and did an auction for an AIDs charity and so we got to hear some ad libbed back-and-forth between Burr and Kieran, etc. I think someone ended up with a signed playbill for $2,000.
  12. Systematic Obesity.
  13. He mentioned he is really stubborn and sort of smirked, as if that was a positive quality, when all I could think of is that his stubborness is what is going to entail him dying on the hill.
  14. Don't forget how cocky we are because of math.
  15. Nico is just so wholly unlikeable. I had no idea how unlikeable he was before this.
  16. Anyone have a link for this? I might as well get my blood pressure up early today.
  17. You people recognize that he will be 99.99% sure be choosing a pontif name immediately, right? Pope Leo the 13th or something.
  18. Yes. There are a % of people whose overweight issues are medical in nature (e.g. hormones, autoimmune, medicines, organ functionality, etc.). I don't think anyone denies or doubts that and some of us probably know of someone like that, but those instances are likely dramatically overstated or real. But also I think the number of people who default or think they can't lose weight because of the above are usually defaulting an easier mental and emotional state of not undertaking the hard work to make some uncomfortable changes. Pre-built excuses which, if you are obese, you likely aren't that disciplined or self-controlled to begin with.
  19. In a lot of circles, offing the Pope is actually positive aura points, is the problem here.
  20. I had a thought last week. Is there a future one day where obesity is a "choice" in the sense that ozempic or wegovuy type meds (which apparently have a ton of good health benefits from reducing heart disease risk to blood pressure and diabetes, etc. and not just weight) are so cheap and readily available? It seems like the optimal and efficient government policy (in long term costs, healthcare burdens, etc.) would be to heavily subsidize or make free these drugs for the poor and obese.
  21. Firing Nico is a tablestake to win back fans like me, it needs to be done yesterday, and it's a very small (but integral) start to rebuilding trust and fandom. That probably sounds gay, but whatever. I'm still hurt.
  22. Speaking of secret eaters, being fat is the one interesting "vice" in that it always manifests itself outwardly to others. You can be a functioning addict of drugs or booze and maybe keep it hidden and "appear" well. But the fat people saying of "What you eat in private, you wear in public" is so true because you essentially cannot hide your weight via irresponsible or irrational eating decisions. I don't think being fat is a moral failing. I've also been alternatively really fit, I've been probably too thin, and I've been fat. These are for a variety of reasons (some health and prescription medicine related) but what I've found is that being really fit takes a lot more work than not. So just maybe there is a bit of privilege in not being a fatty in America in 2025?
  23. “It’s not a crime. Yes, but it’s a sin,” he said. “Fine, but first let’s distinguish between a sin and a crime.” “It’s also a sin to lack charity with one another,” he added.
  24. It seems to me that these are really easy questions to answer and it's interesting that nobody in your life has been able to answer these questions for you, as if you needed the wisdom of Solomon to answer. The one thing I've consistently heard, which seems to check out, is that the biggest threat to Christianity isn't external or outside forces (e.g. culture, anti-christianity fervor, etc.), but it's actually an internal fundamental one: Christians themselves have very little (if any) understanding of their own faith. Biblical illiteracy is rampant and epidemic within the Christian faith, and so you get very little wisdom and a lot of blind leading the blind.
  25. Had Hutchins BBQ yesterday for Easter brunch. Best BBQ for my money (~$40/lb) in a 50 mile radius.
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