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  1. I felt the opposite for the first 30 minutes. When the first scene was the trope of the exhausted politico who has to undue his red tie and pour three fingers of scotch neat and let out a long sigh to let you know he's just exhausted from the intense campaign while watching pundits talk about the latest speech or debate, I involuntarily eye-rolled and thought we were going to get all the trope-y hits.
  2. I'm missing the running joke, I think.
  3. Braces: https://turnbullandasser.com/collections/braces
  4. Based on the series I just saw. I hope not. But seriously, I doubt Moon Knight the character has the popularity and interest as I can't imagine a lot of people stayed with this the entire 6 episodes it was so herky jerky and confusing but not in a smart and good way confusing. And the Egyptian Gods and the Egyptian God angle was lame.
  5. I'm trying to take the long view here as well. It seems like historically when there is a breaking point, either a civil war or a mass pilgrimage/exodus occurs. And we have no new land on earth so...I guess it's either Lord Elon and Twitter on Mars we go or whatever a civil war in the modern era looks like. Probably looks like a proxy shareholder fight and we won't participate but be told what happened.
  6. Am curious as well. Aside from the legacy economic powerhouses (NY/CA/Boston) from where I sit the fastest or most visibly growing economic engines and corporate outposts seem to be in the South with Texas, specifically Austin, and Atlanta (Silicon Peach) leading the way in that growth. And Miami / Florida, it is widely accepted, has become the crypto capital of USA, so interesting to see web3 companies reactions as well (though crypto/web3 has seemed to have gotten a face full of headwind recently so who knows).
  7. Anyone have any dress pant recommendations that come with suspender buttons on the inside (and no belt loops)? I guess it's a bit anachronistic for our work-from-anywhere world today, but sometimes I like to look dapper at ELT type meetings. I didn't even see any at like a Brooks Brothers where you'd assume they'd have some.
  8. Agree on confusing; not sure I agree on the entertaining part. Especially the second half of the series. Felt herky jerky at best. Didn't love the Ethan Hawke character and casting. The end credit screen went a bit of the way to helping to understand the mystery 3rd party.
  9. Saw this today and immediately thought about the conversation last week of how if liberal arts and low ROI-degrees was "means tested" for only those who could afford them, what intangibles would be lost and how fortified in privilege the benefits would further become:
  10. It's the lawyer in you. You are forgiven.
  11. Not Brisket anchoring to a position, extrapolated to an extreme, and stalling out an active discussion through beating the dead horse of making the same point over and over and over and over.... Lay out your point, which you did and it was well stated and we all agree, now kindly move on please, or at least take another number and go to the back of the line if you want to repeat yourself.
  12. At what point does the pre-life become life? Maybe that is where the consensus and law needs to be clear first, as a foundation.
  13. Bernard/Gordon.
  14. Polls have consistently found that a majority of Americans oppose overturning Roe v. Wade. In a Marquette University Law School poll from January, 72% were opposed to striking it down, while 28% were in favor
  15. what now?
  16. I see your point. It seems to me that there is a binary, black and white, decision-tree-esque divide that cannot be compromised or met in the middle from a moral or spiritual place: Do you believe a human fetus is a person with a "soul" endowed by a creator ergo abortion is murder or do you believe a human isn't a human until some other point in time? I find it very difficult to believe that in modern America as we sit here today in 2022 that we have gotten more spiritually conscious and aware and in-touch and that the tide has shifted. From what I have seen of society, the pro-lifers are a minority and one that has been shrinking.
  17. I understand this is a political discussion and as such, there are some assumptions being made philosophically and morally (to which your post I quoted alludes to one)-- is there a more appropriate or different forum or thread to discuss this stuff from a different angle? Asking because I think that would be an interesting conversation as well as one that would yield different forecasting and determinations.
  18. All I know is the "Suns in 4" chant at the end of the game was disrespaktful. I didn't like that. None.
  19. You are free to start your own message board following with a new philosophy and codified set of moral laws and behaviors.
  20. For me it was Kenny G on a Kanye record:
  21. Religions are like when middle schoolers do the mock United Nations or Student Government. Children trying to establish and maintain an order that is beyond their scope in developed abilities. Which is an interesting dilemma because while organized religions mostly suck and are deeply flawed (necessarily, because the people who make up the institutions are deeply flawed), I do believe we are called to be in community with other believers. No man is an island, indeed. That said, "where two or more are gathered...", so have discernment and wisdom and just do your best to join the most life-giving "book club" you can, if your goal is to have as deep a spiritual connection to our creator that you can on this side of existence (and to come home, after you've materially passed).
  22. The telecast said he had 8 turnovers but box score said 5. Don't know the real number or discrepancy there.
  23. Suns suck and Suns fans are Arizona sun-baked trash.
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