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Most likely nothing interesting... I'm of the belief that the reason not everything has been released yet has to do with certain people still being alive.

They must really be hurting on sales. I had access to some yesterday. I didn't get any. Not sure I could even get my money back with fees if I got them so why risk it.

2010 seemed very 80's to me based on what I saw. And it's like "Oh, Roy Scheider... a woman.... a kid".... is this Jaws? And the kid was feeding fish to the dolphins then walked over and picked up a breadstick with his spaghetti. We quit washing hands in 2010?

His announcement was Trump trading cards. The photo is as ridiculous as it sounds. $99 for the set. I won't link to it.

I feel like in a way Musk has replaced Trump as the leader of the crazies. I really do think Trump's irrelevant now. He still has his base but they are pretty much just talking to each other now.

I watched 2001 again last week after spending 25-30 years thinking it was garbage. It was better than I remember, i think the big screen helped things and I'm a different person. I can say it's not garbage and I don't hate it. I appreciate the context from when it was made. It's not for everyone. I started about 30 min into 2010 and plan on finishing it over the break.

What was so funny about Max?

I'm "literally" having this conversation right now regarding a book I am reading on the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's more pretentious than the movie! Filler words. One thing I really hate is the phrase "rather interesting". It's almost, like 99% of the time, never needed.

My twitter experience has been degraded. I've been careful in not over reacting to some things when trying to figure that out. But I just have noticed that I don't spend as much time there as I used to. Maybe some people I followed have left or stopped posting. I do think some of the reaction is overblown because twitter is what you make of it. Follow quacks or follow people who follow quacks and don't use the block button.... then you are going to get the crap. You can weed it out if you want. But I think some people like the drama. Block Musk. Block his name. You can make the site useful for your own needs if you desire. I have noticed a degradation of the ads. Doesn't bother me at all. that's his problem.

I think we have reached the stage where he’s irrelevant now. I really do.

Go for it..... keep digging.

Boulder area. A good friend lives there and loves it. From people I know who live there even though it can snow in October or June, it is always sunny and it melts fast. And it can be 75 in the winter sometimes. They say the seasonal changes are so much better than the midwest and east because of the sunshine. Mentally it makes a huge difference.

I got that ad on twitter.

Does it contain dick pics? That’s the criteria I think.

I saw a study that said conservatively, the vaccines kept 18.5M out of the hospital, saved 3.2 million lives, and $1T in medical costs.

There is a risk in getting it too early. I got mine in late Aug/early Sept, not sure when. My friend suggests November. She thinks whatever help I am getting from it could wear off in February. Then again given how they derive the vaccine nothing is guaranteed. But every bit helps. Would rather be sick than "wanting to die" sick and would rather be "wanting to die" sick than "you are going into the hospital" sick. If getting the shot prevents that give it to me. I think that's a big piece of info the "I got the shot but got the flu" anyway crowd misses. It could have been worse. The flu can be deadly.

I just remembered I started getting the flu shot regularly when my company would have flu shot clinics. You could sign up online for a specific time slot, down to the 10 min intervals. Go downstairs, get jabbed, then carry on. Very very hassle free. Even during covid they would set up a clinic. So between that and my PCP I was covered. But in my 20s and 30s it was hit or miss. Outside of a sinus infection that I finally broke down and went to the doctor for antibiotics, I can't recall any incident of feeling sick, other than a cold that was annoying for about week here or there. A few weeks ago there was something going around and I was congested. No pains, no sore throat, felt fine, just had to constantly blow my nose. As long as I moved around I was clear. Maybe I should have taken a covid test but given no other symptoms I passed. I don't go anywhere and none of my family members were showing the same symptoms. That was the only time during this pandemic I had anything where probably I should have tested. (I think the tests we have our expired anyway).

I think it was when they had one of those "Wives doing things for charity" things that they showed Nick's mom. I thought "Man, she's cute for an older broad" then it hit me.... Nick was born in 1992. Nick could be my son, technically. I was 18/19, it could happen. I have friends with kids that age. Nick's mom is my generation. You are old too dumb ass.

I never went out of my way to get my flu shot but when I went in for my physical in august I would get it if they had it. After talking with a pediatrician friend in 2018 I realized how bad it could be for kids so I made a point to get it. I’ll get a COVID booster every chance I get. I never qualified for the 4th but my doctor offered it in august, but the bivalent was coming out soon so I got that.

As a Kennedy assassination buff the talk by David Whelan is not unlike what we heard Robert Oswald say at the time.

Hospital figures provide the answer as to whether people should have gotten the vaccine. Before they were widely distributed the ICU’s were full of covid patients. Now they are not. Barely a blip on the radar. The impact on our hospitals is the single data point you need. It answers the questions. It’s night and day better today than 2 years ago. By a mile. remember it wasn’t just COVID patients dying because of over crowding and it’s not just COVID deaths being prevented that matter. It was stroke and heart attack patients that couldn’t get the kind of care dying that made it worse. Today they get the treatment they need. it’s at the point now where it’s very rare my wife has a patient in the icu because of covid.

The Guardians movies have awesome soundtracks. It directly ties in with the Peter Quill character. He was abducted from earth as a child in the mid 80a and he had his Walkman with him along with awesome mix tapes that his mom gave him. His whole frame of reference is culture at that time. He always talked about how awesome Kevin Bacon was because of footloose. So for Christmas his alien friends abduct Bacon as a present thinking it will cheer him up. Hilarity ensues. It’s a cute 45 minutes.

He almost got fired.

I get it. And if we did that for games played on national holidays I'd be ok with it. But I think having a moment of silence every game for some named victims of the day would make it lose its significance. It's a tragic world and not hard to think of some reason to have one every day but you can't do that.