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  1. 21 hours ago, MichiganCardinal said:

    Participated in CrossFit Open 26.1 today (scaled).

    12:00 cap to complete:

    20 wall balls at 14#
    18 box step-ups at 24”
    30 wall balls
    18 step-ups
    40 wall balls
    18 step-ups with the ball
    66 wall balls
    18 step-ups with the ball
    40 wall balls
    18 step-ups
    30 wall balls
    18 step-ups
    20 wall balls

    Scored a 155 (11/66 wall balls). Good for like 55,000th in the competition and somewhere around 40/60 in my gym. I was happy with how I did though. Excited to see how much I can grow in a year if I stick with it.

    Awesome. Stick with it. Being in a group setting can be a game changer.  We call that format a pyramid and we never seem to get thru them all.  But we will have 6-7 exercises and do either 1 to ten reps then backdown or 5-10-15-20-15-10-5.   The transition is considered cheap cardio. 

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  2. 44 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

    Why would you care? There are no leftist in the military. I have four active duty military in my immediate family. I ran a tour through Afghanistan and one through Iraq. We know what it takes. Spare me your keyboard soul searching. 

    Not impressed. 

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  3. 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. 
     

     

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  4. 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. 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. 

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  6. 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.

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  7. 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.

     

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  8. 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.

     

  9. 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.

     

     

  10. 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.

     

  11. 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.

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  12. 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.

     

     

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