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  1. Excellent read.
  2. You can still do that across threads. Once upon a time I lost considerable weight but I will say talking about weight loss when you don’t need to lose 50lbs isn’t helpful for those who are trying to lose a lot of weight and might even discourage them. There are tons of health topics like that. There’s a reason different topics related to health came to be. But idgaf in the end. Whatever it becomes it becomes.
  3. We already had a fitness weight loss thread and an old sucks thread I guess I’m in poor health is a thread we need and we will all be there eventually but I like a thread that’s about optimizing health not struggling with ailments or what pharma are you taking. and I’ve been there so it’s sometimes needed.
  4. Bump in light of the thread change on the perennial health thread to the fat people that don’t want to die. I may have a few extra pounds to lose especially after a weekend celebrating the big 50, but I’m not fat (anymore) … I have been using ChatGPT to analyze food choices after reading 50% of “our” diets are ultra processed. I think I come out better than that but I still was shocked to see that 95% of foods with ingredient lists - even fresh foods like my kale pasta salad from HEB are processed or lightly ultra processed. Smdh.
  5. Happy bday to me, turned 50 Thursday. Floated the Provo in Utah yesterday, fished mono line for the first time, took an hour or so to figure it out, river was swift enough to make it fairly technical. Ended up being a great day, caught about 7 mix of rainbows and browns. yes I know my knees look like hell. anyway, I spent the last year dreading 50, but so far so good… I think this song is apropos…
  6. That strong willed child bullshit was used on me. I guess James fucking Dobson gave us the trans epidemic.
  7. He and his death don’t deserve a moment of my time. Fuck that guy.
  8. It certainly is relative. It’s been a long time since we’ve had any legislative success. So it’s in that context. Expansion of NATO and exposure of Russia as a paper tiger yeah that was on point. But I don’t really care. Happy to give up. About to board a plane for a good time, so Biden sucks, Biden doesn’t, history will like him, history won’t. I don’t care enough to engage. Don’t mean to be a little shit about it I just don’t really care.
  9. His reelection blunders are a major problem, his legislative and foreign policy successes were pretty stellar. Not enough, but pretty stellar imo.
  10. Dems are imo trying to actively fill the void "left" by the republican party going far right. they pick up some donors here or there, but fail to realize the donor class has at least in part also moved far right. it's completely fucked up. the answer to lying republican populism is a real working class, middle class party on the left.
  11. this is my whole "label argument" ... without consent labeling hispanics "Latinx", cishet white women with their fucking pronoun tags on emails, calling those who don't have a home to live in the unhoused, all of it. look, it's well meaning, and in a vacuum the intent really matters, but the fucking problem is that there is NOTHING behind these intentions other than labeling. definitions, word choice and academic masturbation. Biden was FAN-FUCKING-STASTIC but he was two decades too late. He was starting to implement a progressive policy agenda but public perception was well past the tipping point and his desire to stay out of the limelight because of what Trump did before him, Biden's fear of speaking / stuttering, and his poor health only made it worse. Chuck Schumer and the rest of these assholes pander to the labeling lobby and then do absolutely jack shit. you know what the labelled needed last time Dems had a monopoly? Voting Rights Act, Federal Equality Act, legislative student loan reform, and much more for working class and middle class PEOPLE .... ALL PEOPLE. We did get the infrastructure/inflation bill which was monumental as well as the CHIPS bill but we needed much much more. The fact that they couldn't get these so-called priorities done is proof of their apathy, hypocrisy and ineffectiveness. Yeah yeah the other Joe from WVA was a wolf in sheep's clothing and that attention whore but Sinema is a fucking bi-sexual woman for fuck's sake. Don't even get me started on a DOJ that had the fucking balls to be aggressive in prosecutions. That's just the tip of the iceberg with the problems of the Dem party. so instead of taking the label movement and being grateful (which I used to be), I want to shove it right up their asses and say, IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER. WE NEED REAL CHANGE ASSHOLES. and nuance can be lost here - as between me and my neighbor, labels do matter, I appreciate my friends using their pronouns to signal allyship, and I do think it matters to stop calling hispanics Latinx and I do think unhoused or experiencing homelessness is important (I am involved with these folks in volunteer service) but when it comes to the political class? they can get fucked until they cause real change to occur.
  12. Leach’s teams whipping the the whoopers year after year was blissful.
  13. About what?
  14. Because I said I’m partial to the ladies? Because I’m married to a woman?
  15. I missed this but think I made my point - both are performative - not the desire to be respectful or inclusive - but the forced label on Hispanics and the assumption that all is good if you just put your pronouns in your email footer and make people state their pronouns in a meeting. Honestly it’s in the same ball park as honoring indigenous tribes that once lived on the land, look I get it but you feeling better because you made those references to cultures long since forcibly removed is more offensive in my opinion than saying nothing. Dems spend WAY too much time on labels and performance than actually doing the next practical right thing to do. so in the end, yeah I kinda find the performative pronoun ritual - often dutifully employed by cisgender heterosexual white women - to be kind of offensive. Not because of their well meaning views but because in the end, well it was paired with nothing else.
  16. troph

    Grammer Bored

    I once used it’s when its was called for. I mean that’s the worse example I can come up with. Sorry I’m lame.
  17. beat laugh I’ve had all day. These dudes are fucking dumb.
  18. Mootopia from HEB for the win. Ultra pasteurized, lower sugar, lower fat, with an end result of a better protein to sugar/fat ratio. Add some omega 3s and I’m good to go. Don’t know the cost, takes us 10 or so days to drink a whole gallon.
  19. I don’t know if you have individual standing - that’s for an HOA law geek - but I can say if you or the HOA don’t get in front of it before too much longer the equity (fairness) side of the scale will start to heavily tilt toward the new home owner building such a monstrosity. From there the rule starts the slide toward unenforceable given past waivers. If it matters to you, someone should do something.
  20. We have a pretty nice house, has some mid century elements, more modern but a blend, butterfly roof, shed roof, transom windows in two places. I love it. but this house in old Lakeway (our last hood and we live not far from there now) has me absolutely in drool mode. https://www.redfin.com/TX/Lakeway/821-Malabar-St-78734/home/31284740 Absolutely stunning.
  21. yall know how you all like to say she’s got a hot body and you’d you know shag her with a bag over her head. This is pretty much the dude version of that, those ears ack. I generally think tennis athletes have the best physiques and I’m also partial to the ladies, but holy fuck this guy has a sexy as fuck body. Carry on.
  22. Neither me nor my wife tolerate excess poundage very well, but a certain amount must be allowed as part of the fun and uncrazy quotient. Flat stomachs and perfectly sculpted thighs are the tune of the sirens, be very wary.
  23. If I could sacrifice my own life with the simple guarantee that this alone would change forever, I would. It wouldn’t even be a difficult choice. I’m so fucking mad about all this shit right now.
  24. Fuck this guy he needs to be shown the door. I’d do a better job than this POS.
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