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Finally catching up on last season, and I'm about midway through. Colin Robinson with the weather was fucking great. And Nandor DeLaurentiis 😆
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Hahaha, i started to read the thread more after I posted and realized I probably am not welcome here. I'll observe from the sidelines for now.
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Going to the Dr soon for the first time in 4 years, basically just to get a referral for a vasectomy. Feeling pretty good at 36, but my younger siblings are currently pissing out kidney stones and incapacitated from back pain. Hopefully I inherited all the healthy genes. That shit does not sound fun.
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On 5/25/2024 at 1:00 PM, Hank Kingsley said:
Very fitting that Royce White couldn’t make it in the NBA due to serious mental health issues and now he’s this close to a United States Senate seat.
Wow, I didn't know he was THAT Royce White. If you fail at your chosen profession, run for office as a GOP, I guess.
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19 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:
I can shovel snow and put more clothes on.
The heat wasn't a problem before we had kids - we would just veg inside. With kids comes various activities, sports and otherwise.
I was at home with a one year-old all last summer. Good times. I don't know if it will be any easier with him being 2, but at least he's in daycare now. I was really starting to lose it by August.
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4 hours ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:I disagree with this. These people aren’t all Fascists and they all don’t want bad things to happen to the groups you mentioned. Some are like that but many unfortunately and simply just watch Fox News and believe the country is falling apart because of the Democrats and Biden. Are there racists that vote for Trump? Yes and they are pieces of shit. Are there people that vote for Trump that are greedy and just care about their personal possessions and making more money? Yes and they are pieces of shit, but to lump everyone that votes for Trump in one category is actually incorrect. There is a large group of Republicans that have a different/incorrect view of the world because Fox News, right wing media, and the Republican politicians push that on them as the truth.
It has probably always been this way but now it is amped up even more with social media and media in general but it’s quite amazing to see propaganda and lies and how it steers the views of people in this country.
I feel like this is how many of us rationalize friends and family who continue to support Trump. "They're not bad people, they've just been duped!"
My parents are in this group. While I would love to believe they care about more than money and are not that racist, I can't blame Fox News alone for their beliefs. I can put a good amount of blame on right-wing media, but my parents are smart enough to not be let off the hook so easily
I still love them and I'm not ready to cut them out of my life, as some people on here like to suggest. But I'm not about to give them a free pass on their shitty beliefs because of brainwashing, and if they bring them up around my family or me, we're going to have problems.
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2 hours ago, gofuckyourself said:
I've had this same conversation and idea. The wife, and moreso her family, have "no use" for a diverse vocabulary. Ironically, she's a great communicator, which illustrates that accumulating an inventory of language doesn't always facilitate getting one's ideas across, or vice versa.
But the purpose of language to communicate nuances tactfully, elegantly or artfully is lost on them. "Just use the simple word."
Succinctness has its place but the increasing disdain for language, as you note, isn't without consequences. If only monotony and boredom.
But I think that notion dovetails with an insecurity and a fear of words, which is just a fear of ideas, that extends into book burning. It is increasing, and spoiler alert, in Texas and Florida the most. That could go full CR as well; I digress.
I've recently renewed my interest in writing and started noticing these things, so I also started a list of words. I save the ones I come across that have a delightfully specific meaning.
Altricial was one, a zoological term describing animals born helpless and requiring significant care until older. It struck me it can apply to many people well-past childhood.
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Was out of town last week, so I only just resumed my work on the cabinets. Waiting for the last couple shelves to cure, but started to put up my doors. I'm really pleased overall, except the fit is just slightly off on some of the doors. I'm not sure if they were this way before (certainly possible, all I could see was the painful honey oak), or if not keeping track of specific hinges threw it off just a little bit. Any suggestions to perfect the alignment?
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I don't think I've read any of these since I turned 26 (36 now), so it would definitely be interesting to see what I get out of a lot of these books now that I've been out in the real world for a while.
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I need to sprinkle some classics into my non-fiction. I don't know that it's fair to mention any that I particularly hated, since they were primarily in high school and I was "forced" to read them. I have tried to start The Sound and the Fury a couple of times without picking up much steam.
Top 3 are...
1. 100 years of Solitude- It's been a decade since I read this, and I'm hopefully going to Colombia in a couple months, so due for a re-read.
2. 1984- I'm a glutton for punishment I guess, because well-done books/shows/movies that are terrifying and depressing are often my favorites.
3. East of Eden- My now-wife gave me this to read when we first started dating, so fortunately I loved it just as much as she did. Multi-gemerational stories seem to capture my attention (see #1).
Catch-22 and A Brave New World probably round out the top 5. Man, I really need to read more.
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Member when you had to drop out of the presidential race because you did a goofy, yelling fist pump? I member...
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I feel like most people are at least passingly familiar with dinosaurs and animals of the ice age. But the time between produced some really weird shit that hardly anyone knows about. Paraceratherium, gigantopithecus, fucking entelodonts? Aka giant rhino-giraffe, sasquatch and hell pig. Terrifying.
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5 minutes ago, David Dennison said:
I should probably add that I'm not nearly as freaked out about the prospect of another Trump term as a lot of people on the left.
Why not?
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I'm confused if people are unaware of these facts, don't believe them, don't care or don't think that it will impact them or their offspring. It baffles me, honestly.
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And by will have devastating consequences, I mean is having devastating consequences currently. It's not just a turtle going extinct here or there. Biodiversity loss will harm future generations of humans. So I believe that while population decline may put a financial burden on generations such as my own, fewer people consuming less is a good thing long-term, for both people and the planet.
North America has lost 3 BILLION birds
All wildlife populations collapsing
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You can think humans aren't a virus that need be eradicated while still believing that our march to 10 billion people will have devastating consequences.
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2 year sleep regression is underway. I don't know if that's a typical thing, but he will NOT fall asleep in his crib. Once he's out, he can be moved there and will usually sleep through the night.
I'm ready to get back to sleep training and let him cry it out, but my wife is understandably reluctant, because there is a 50/50 shot that he will work himself up into a coughing fit and puke everywhere. Fun stuff.
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Nor do they feel shame. Too bad, it's such an unpleasant feeling and they deserve to marinate in it for the rest of their lives.