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HBO is doing a Six Feet Under marathon today. Have had it on all day. Loved this show so much. One thing I forgot is I always thought it opened with that weeks death, then the credits instead of credits then death. Also I could do without the Brenda’s brother storyline. The psychiatric BS with him and her was exhausting. But what a great show. Surprised how many of the deaths I remembered. still the best series ending ever.

I read a thing where they surprised her with it. She made it thru the scene then broke out laughing.

Imagine having to rely on Stephen A Smith for support of your beliefs.

That’s why we need to knock down our women a couple of pegs. Reintroduce the “trad” wives. Decriminalize the rape of girls who reached puberty and remove the stigma of older men and younger women, if it ever existed, and let the alpha males procreate the proper white macho society thus country was founded on. That’s their goal.

This Supreme Court will find a way. would the states have the courage to forgo the pressure from media companies unwilling to give up lucrative campaign spending?

For large races they ask that you go in a corral based on your pace. After doing the freep marathon twice I learned to ignore that. For a half my pace is about 11:00. I had to dodge walkers for 2 miles. to go along with this are people who run or walk more than 2 astride. I could go on and on.

Ok got her to watch the first episode. She loved it.

But these same dip****s will cheer on and mourn Ashli Babbit.

If I could change one thing about myself in terms of eating it wpuld be that I like beans. I can’t get past the texture. I’ve tried over and over. The one exception is after the freep half marathon. The VIP tent I get access to, from buying **** - I am not important, provides chili and other food and drinks after. It’s not even a “I will eat this because that’s all there is” thing. I scoop them up. But try me again later that day. Something happens to the body. One year I ran a 10 miler around belle isle on a x75 degree clear sky afternoon. Worst athletic experience ever. I swore I was never running again. Because I am slow the event ran low on post race goodies. Sponsored by Atwater. You finished there. Finding water was hard. My wife handed me a Coke which sounded great. It tasted like salt water. My body chemistry was out of whack. I spit it out. anyway I wish I liked beans and didn’t have to run 13.1 miles to enjoy.

There’s no way I can keep up. I know I will love pluribis but I want my wife to watch other me. This is not the week. We started Ted Lasso last week and love it. 30 minute shows are so ideal.

Good because I watched the trailer and I am completely lost. I forgot everything. That was 3 years ago.

I’m bummed I missed her show. I saw her last year. She’s very good.

not under appreciated... but forgotten Tigers is how I classify him. Just last week I was like "Oh yeah... he was here"

For comparison sake there was a 3 second delay to the moon during the lunar missions. The last photo Voyager sent to us was the "Pale Blue Dot". That's us. I've read that Carl Sagan told them to take that photo. It traveled 13 years to get that and has traveled 35 since.

Duggan is a grifter.

Couldn’t listen today. Someone in China doesn’t understand it’s thanksgiving week and also that just because your calendar is free it doesn’t mean you aren’t busy.

I saw a blip about CNBC complaining that we were "Hoarding our phones" longer than usual and that's bad. It was a picture of a story, not a link, so I have no idea if it's what they said. But I know it's what they are thinking. The average length of time people keep their phones is 27 months. That's absurd. I've had 2 in 10 years and this one now is still going strong. We've just accepted hundreds of dollars a month in fees to entertain ourselves. I'm guilty of it. Plus overpaying for things like DoorDash. Someone was complaining on FB about the cost of his Subway being so high. I checked online near him and he paid 40% more because he had it delivered.

I just watched a video last night talking about how it's not about the fuel to "get" there or to "go that way" but to be able to brake so that you can get into it's orbit, then to land. It takes fuel to stop! Going to the moon they went out on a free return trajectory so that if anything went wrong they would just whip around and come back with no requirement to change anything on their end. Ironically Apollo 13 was the first one to NOT do that, one of the burns they had to do was to get back on that trajectory. The landing site they wanted wouldn't have worked on a free return path because the sun and it's shadows had to be favorable or else couldn't keep the perspective on mountains and boulders while trying to land.

It was one reason why management at NASA didn't push too hard for more funding. As much fun and cool it was to land on the moon, it was very costly and they knew it was just a matter of time before someone died doing it, let alone failed like Apollo 13. Every mission had severe points that could have been a disaster. I could list them all right now. We just need to see what happened with the Shuttle program. It's statistics. I've watched videos describing how a Mars misssion would work and there's still issues with fuel and weight. For scale purposes... a standard schoolroom globe. The moon is a volleyball. The space station is currently about a cm above the globe. The volleyball moon is 17 feet away. Mars is a few miles away. (the distance to Mars is not absolute as we are in different size orbits around the sun and there's advantages/disadvantages to picking the right time to go).

Prices reflect what people are willing to pay. Baseball is still a cheap option, especially relative to the other 3 pro sports.

SpaceX is tasked with the lander for Artemis III but NASA recently opened up the option for someone else to do it. Artemis II, which will go around the moon in a free return trajectory rather than Lunar Orbit, doesn't involve SpaceX. I would not bet $500 of my own money that we land on Artemis III. That's what makes me laugh about the "We can land a man on the moon but we can't...." trope. It was extremely costly and took 400,000 people to do that. In 1966 NASA was 4.4% of the budget. In 1968 before we flew a manned Apollo mission, they already cut productions of the Saturn V rockets, 15 total. 2 were kept for Museums and 1 was used for Skylab, 2 were unmanned. If JFK didn't die when he did there's some that think we never would have even done it. The drive to do it came from him issuing the charge and then getting assassinated. Congress couldn't wait to pull funding from Apollo. And we're finding out it's not that easy even with modern technology. We're never going to Mars. I don't see it. Check... maybe someone will attempt to go, but they won't land.

Why is Captain in quotes? Mark Kelly > Pete Hegseth

I saw a reel that pointed out that Cheap Trick was offered either The Flame or Look Away. "Pick one of these, the other I'm going to give to Chicago" was the direction. I was 15 at the time and spent many nights at the skating rink the summer of '88 hearing that over and over again. Thanks for the suggestion. I am going to try that now.