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I wish we had the old board. I always had it on my to do list to track my “progress”. I do know I shifted after Sandy Hook. When I saw the response as the canned NRA talking points I knew I was different. 

I always thank retail and food workers as a remnant of the covid days when they were the few dragged into work while others like me stayed home. I wanted to let them know I appreciate their work. Then it just evolved to a general appreciation for everyone. All jobs are worthwhile. I’m no better than the guy cleaning trash. I get paid a lot of money but it’s not critical. The bus driver that takes my son to flint every day?  That’s critical and she probably makes 1/3 of what I do. 
 

5 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

My son and his X lived outside Dallas for a while. It was ok to visit, but I have no desire to spend hot and humid summers there.

I get some of that during the Summer here but a short stroll down DOG Street or an afternoon be at the local brewery on the James makes up for it.

I was never impressed with Frisco

Went to a rough riders game there. For like $20 I you get a good seat and all you can eat sodas and burgers/dogs/chips. Told my sis and bro in laws that if I lived there I would be a season ticket holder.  They’re in McKinney. But I get it. It seemed like a manufactured destination. 

5 hours ago, chasfh said:

Go back to 2006 and tell 30-something you that you will be typing this on the Motown board in twenty years.

I will admit to my own opinions shifting somewhat but it was also heavily influenced by the turn the party made. I always wonder where I would be today if someone like Rubio had gotten the nomination in ‘16. 

1 minute ago, gehringer_2 said:

Spent any time in Houston? I can see why business likes it, but QOL sucks. SIL is near San Antonio, seems to be a more reasonable place to actually live. No experience with the Dallas area.

Dallas is nice but like LA it takes so long to go anywhere.  Once you are outside of the downtown area it's like the Novi/Northville area times 2000.   Miles and miles of subsdivisions and shopping centers. Hit a main artery and you'll see a center anchored by Lowe's.  Then the next light a center anchored Costco.  Then a center anchored by their grocery chain.  Repeat for miles. No charm or character.  And they shut down from June to Sept like we do in the winter.  When I was there i had to cycle through 3 shirts a day.

10 minutes ago, romad1 said:

We all have rights.  They have to get subpoenas to access records from US providers.  NSA often bumps into these clowns comms with their foreign friends though.  Its weird that the troll says FBI agents are snakes.  Aren't those federal agents?  Aren't we totally backing the blue?  Or are they too well trained for his liking?  Too much independent thought? 

They only back the blue when they beat up and kill liberals and brown people.  When they investigate right wing bad guys and girls...well it's the deep state then.

You have to be stupid to be a republican.

22 minutes ago, Screwball said:

More on AI and our shrinking world; Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

A start...

I get so tired of hearing "No problem" and "I got you".

I know it's generational and that's how they were taught... I prefer the "My pleasure" way.  Saying "No problem" makes it sound like they did us a favor.

The 25-54 demo seems outdated to me.  That's putting me and my son in the same group.  Outside of sports he's never watched "regular" TV since his Nickelodean days.

Seems like for CBS Evening News you could change it to 50-54 and get 95% of that 4.4M

NASA announces Artemis III will not be a lunar landing mission after all.  It will have a 2027 target date and test 1 or more lunar landers in earth orbit, which is what Apollo 9 did.  This is not surprising at all considering we don't even have a lunar lander yet.  SpaceX is running into issues with theirs and NASA opened up the "contract" last year.  An Artemis IV is now on deck for a landing.

Artemis II is rolled back to the VAB to fix a leak and April is the earliest they can go.

8 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

For the most part don't even interact with him, but for the two occasions that I interact with him in the past couple of days, I get singled out for not following some sort of unwritten forum rule about not interacting with him.

It's really aggravating to say the least. 

There is no unwritten rule.  Posters can't be expected to keep track of the blocking habits of others.

My wife was on the phone with her sister in Dallas when that sequence went down.  I kept rewinding it over and over. and then my wife had to tell sister what's going on.

I missed wings hockey.

Woo hoo. Larkin again. Welcome back. 
 

franchise leader in OT goals. 

LOL 

This is amazing what just happened. 
 

I didn’t know standing there and someone running into you was penalty to begin with. 

7 minutes ago, Biff Mayhem said:

Is there perhaps some dementia occurring as well?

In this case not really.  They just don't get hungry and there's probably some sadness and depression so they just don't feel like eating or drinking.  Their bodies tell them they don't have to.  My mom is 96 and her mind is totally there.  Sharp as a toolbox.  But we have to sort of make her eat sometimes.

8 hours ago, mtutiger said:

Again, I think there's a difference between simply holding those views and going about your business and, well, whatever the US Men's Hockey team decided to do after their win. 

In that context, it's not at all surprising people have opinions and are making judgments for better or worse. I don't think it's simply because of the views, but how they have decided to comport themselves.

I'm not even sure they "have" opinions like we do.  They probably give it very little thought and just go about how believing how they were raised but it's very surface level.  Especially those in team sports where they play a lot of games.  They're not thinking about this stuff.

Unless one of the team USA players comes out explicitly in support of the president and the policies I'm going to assume they are just along for the ride of enjoying olympic gold until they have to go back to their teams this week.

Anybody who's looked after elderly, like those over 85 can attest to similar things, even though that's not what happened here I assume.

Phone call at 2:30 pm.

"Hey, I need to go to the ER"

"What's wrong uncle?"

"I got a headache and am light headed. Kind of dizzy"

"What have you eaten today?"

"I had coffee this morning"

"Did you drink any water"

"No"

My wife says one of the symptoms of getting older is you lose hunger pains. So they forget to eat or don't feel like eating because they feel fine - until they don't.  THen they assume it's something else.

Awful Announcing is reporting that NBC will hire Benetti for Sunday Night Baseball and use a local announcer as analyst.  The post is 14 hours old though and I didn’t see anything else so I am not convinced it’s accurate. 

My wife got to meet him at an expo for a race in Fort Worth.   

28 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

The de-humanization of undocumented people is just gross. These are people just like you and me - these are people who have fled their own country for reasons such as political/gang violence or extreme poverty. 

It’s the “Christian” thing to do to mock and dehumanize them.  The can wear their crosses and praise Jesus after winning a sporting event and pretend all is good and that makes them morally superior. It doesn’t. It’s hypocritical bull**** . All while “Bench pressing” 315 pounds allegedly.  Trump supporters today are pathetic excuses for human beings.  Phony Christians. 

9 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

and Wagner was a Nazi but his operas are still the epitome of the art form. Whadyah gonna do? The idea that only moral people (by whatever definition) can produce things of positive value is a naive and false reading of humanity. Nor does the that fact that they do vitiate their culpability for the bad stuff.

and Nazis put us on the moon... or at least boosted us up in that direction.

"Von Braun says he aims for the stars... but sometimes he hits London"

Conservatives today think adult means 14.  At least sexually.

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Why bother? He'd just be replaced by another red hat athlete.

Most professional athletes, especially the white American ones, are ardent red hats. If you want to be a fan of big-time sports, you can't allow yourself to set a bar of no MAGA ever for your teams because you can't ever have that. Either disassociate the player from his ideology, or give up following big-time sports. Simple as that. You're rooting for the player, not the person. Difference.

Along the same lines... movie stars and musicians.  Maybe not so much movie stars because we don't "see" them and their work is not really them, it's part of an ensemble of art others created.  But if you find yourself jamming to a song from the 50's until maybe 10 years ago when we got smarter about this.. you might not be happy to know what they've done.

Unless someone explicitly does a certain thing I'm not getting wrapped up in it.   I will cheer for Larkin like I've always done.  

I'll take a wine mom over a Nazi any day

There's a reason grindr's servers overload every time the GOP men get together.