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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Let's talk about Elon Musk

« on: April 02, 2025, 03:43:17 PM »

Only time will tell if those margins were reduced due to anything the democrats did or if the local republicans just couldn't get motivated to vote for someone who isn't a sex-trafficking pedophile.

The Randy Fine thing is hilarious. He did DeSantis’ bidding in the legislature against Disney then DeSantis disavowed him. Today DeSantis went on a rant that the other pub legislators were begging him to find something else for Fine to do because they all hated him. He offered him up as UP of Florida Atlantic & the FA board all threatened to resign.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Tornado Season 2024

« on: April 02, 2025, 03:20:36 PM »

Tornado this morning tore up a bunch of houses 1/2 mile from me. It took a tangential path from 1/2 south to a 1/2 mile east of me. I’m sure some of my kids classmates had their houses heavily damaged.

in what part of the world do you live, hamburglar?

Owasso, 5 miles north of Tulsa. It ripped off some roofs & uprooted some big trees. Driving out of my neighborhood it was a clear line of damage (fences, trees, roofs) of the path of the tornado. It wasn’t a big one & I haven’t heard of anyone getting hurt, but it did enough damage that they’re going to have to knock down some houses & it was close to a much bigger problem.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Tornado Season 2024

« on: April 02, 2025, 10:29:52 AM »

Tornado this morning tore up a bunch of houses 1/2 mile from me. It took a tangential path from 1/2 south to a 1/2 mile east of me. I’m sure some of my kids classmates had their houses heavily damaged.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: March 30, 2025, 08:41:03 AM »

Kansai

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Recent motion picture viewing - Add your own!

« on: March 28, 2025, 11:11:37 AM »

They’re putting Happy Gilmore back in the theaters in a few weeks. Can’t wait to take my daughter.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Unofficial Movie Trailer Thread

« on: March 26, 2025, 11:10:26 PM »

Movie about one of my childhood heroes, Michael Larson.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Master Dating Thread

« on: March 25, 2025, 04:16:03 PM »

My wife told me what she liked ring wise. I still didn't tell her until a few years into our marriage that I bought her ring from idonowidont.com because I saw it somewhere. Was flippin awesome though, I was able to get her a certified/appraised ring (whatever that means) and a way fatter rock then I could've afforded at the time. She also LOL'd pretty hard when I told her where I got it from. 

Is that place for divorced women to sell their rings?

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Master Dating Thread

« on: March 25, 2025, 12:30:37 PM »

I did surprise her with the engagement itself though. It was kind of fun watching her squirm with anticipation.

She picked the diamond & we had the ring made to fit it. I did have the jeweler lie about how long it would take. I got it back a month earlier than she got & gave it to her.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Master Dating Thread

« on: March 25, 2025, 11:45:19 AM »

Guys real talk here. When did you buy the ring? How long before asking did you have it?

We are both pragmatic. We discussed it ahead of time & jointly decided to get married. Then she picked out the ring.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: March 25, 2025, 11:16:18 AM »

Hint: the name will make you

Fukuoka

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: March 25, 2025, 11:07:39 AM »

I cheated but I was pretty close before I cheated

did not expect helsinki to be a single terminal airport but it kinda ruled

I have a two hour connection through Helsinki in a few months.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: random thing thread

« on: March 22, 2025, 12:03:33 PM »

Almost immediately after it went viral, they announced 10% of sales would go to a cervical cancer charity. They had to have had that planned ahead of time. They knew what they were doing.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: random thing thread

« on: March 20, 2025, 08:30:11 PM »

Anyone else pronounce words differently depending on usage? I do it with caramel. I’ll say “car-mull” apple or “car-mull” candy, but I’ll say “care-a-mel” sauce or “care-a-mel” sundae.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Shows that have you by the balls, or vag...

« on: March 20, 2025, 07:46:30 PM »

I'm a few episodes deep into The Last of Us.  Really interesting season within a season thing they did with Nick Offermans character.

I have no idea how they are going to adapt the 2nd game.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats

« on: March 16, 2025, 05:35:03 PM »

Went to the game today. Utah is terrible.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Destination: SALINA!

« on: March 07, 2025, 07:00:16 PM »

The city is spending over $500k on legal fees fighting a mural on the side Cozy Inn saying it violates city signage ordinance.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Celebrity Deaths (whenever)

« on: March 07, 2025, 05:43:56 PM »

Hantavirus has rocketed into my awareness

I was VERY aware of it when I was like 7 years old and it was the hot new disease for a minute


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When I was a kid we used to go out to the homestead my dad grew up on with a couple abandoned houses, old barns & silo. My mom was convinced I was going to her hantavirus. I high school I sand blasted a trailer & used an older helmet/respirator my dad had. She was not happy with my dad that he was probably giving me hantavirus.

Mrs Hamburg’s grandma is 96 & still lives on her own at the old farm. They were pack rats. There’s multiple old barns & sheds full of junk. Whenever we visit we let the kids run around & I always joke they’re getting it.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

« on: March 03, 2025, 01:56:58 PM »

Mods, please merge with the Signs Of Getting Old thread.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Celebrity Deaths (whenever)

« on: February 27, 2025, 05:23:28 PM »

I'm not saying he had some part in this. I'm just saying he's not in the clear.

They said they’d been dead for some time. I think your dad is in the clear.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Jeff Bezos

« on: February 26, 2025, 11:12:01 PM »

WaPo Editors: Democracy as we define it dies in the darkness . . . and we'll decide what the darkness is (or isn't) . . .

The irony of this post.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Inner Monologue

« on: February 20, 2025, 09:38:11 AM »

For those of you that don’t have an inner monologue, how do you math in your head? It seems like this would be impossible for you.

If I’m doing more complex math in my head, I also have the ability to “see” a blackboard. This is hard to explain, but I “see” it up & to the right. When I use it my eyes will look up & right as if it’s actually there. I write on it in white text & visualize the strokes of the numbers & operators being written on it. Sometimes I’ll move my right index finger as if I’m writing the equation on it like it’s a touch pad.

Does a computer hear math to do it? My brain just does it. I don’t see or “hear” the numbers. My brain just knows the answer.


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This is so weird to me. Sounds like a super power.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Inner Monologue

« on: February 20, 2025, 09:37:15 AM »

Yup, 100%. I often listen to the same things again, it's sort of an active "white noise" that just allows everything to block out and I can focus. And yeah if things start to mix I have to stop. When I work on specs it's almost always listening classical or electronic music with little to no words in it. If i do something like drawings/CAD, then I can change to something with more language in it since the inner monologue doesn't need to be used.

50%+ of my listen time is Pink Floyd or Pink Floyd ambient music on YouTube. There are 4 people on YouTube that do piano covers that’s I’ll listen too, plus Nine Inch Nails ambient. My current “my mix” has a lot of Sparta, The Mars Volta, Brand New & Death Cab. I’ve been doing a lot in SQL lately & I need something with a little more than just ambient music when I do that, but I’ve been listening to those songs for so long I don’t process the words & the singing voice is just an instrument. I can’t listen to something new.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Inner Monologue

« on: February 20, 2025, 09:16:56 AM »

Yep, I run a ton of stuff by Doggie SF too. I’m basically talking in my head or to Doggie all day.


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Yes. A good therapist helped me consider some of the terrible stuff I was saying to myself in my inner monologue. Big part of the healing process.

We will also voice our dog's inner monologue -- he uses the same voice as Lennie from "Of Mice and Men"

That is great work by your therapist. I started taking Lexapro a couple years ago & it helps a lot. I think it’s working by stopping my inner monologue from telling me to worry all day.

This is all so fascinating to me. Based off your response, it seems like “do you have an inner monologue?” should be a first appointment question.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Inner Monologue

« on: February 20, 2025, 09:13:35 AM »

in good faith question: do you freaks like think about what you're typing and doing at work or whatever in spoken word the entire time?

EDIT: freaks was used lovingly and I only mean it as different than myself which is kinda freakish honestly

Yes

followup question: if so, how do you not kill yourselves? not being mean, but that seems very torturous. maybe it's not. I have no idea obviously.

Used to it I guess? I can't even imagine it not happening.

CASE IN POINT: I'm just typing this post without hearing anything in my brain. Just doing it. Do you hear it spoken to you when you're doing stuff like that?

Yes, I hear every word, sometimes in different accents. But like it's not actually "hearing", like it's not auditory but like my minds ear

Yeah this, maybe not accents but I often rehearse in my head how I want to say something to a person/audience based on what I know of the person and just like general cues that typically happen in conversations. Or even reading this sentence with different inflections to see how it might convey different thing and how that "sounds" to me. But it's not really sounds but my brain thinks it is. I think the best semi accurate example of the inner dialogue is to me would be like Cady from Mean Girls when she has her quick thoughts happen when talking to someone. Sort of a narration but really it's a consciousness that's a more raw version of myself.

Side note but related. I do think this inner monologue does help partially explain why I can get sensory overload a lot when going out, or when two people try to talk to my at once. If I hear that many conversations my brain wants to hear them all, all while also performing said inner dialogue, it's personally hard for me to shut this down. I liken it to when you're playing catch and then all the sudden two (or more) baseballs are thrown at you, it sort of freaks out my mind, too many things for it to react to. It's also why when I read something I cannot listen at the same time, I have my voice "speak" it out loud, in my brain. So to then have someone talk to me (or have a podcast or w/e on) I cannot "listen" to both.

Yes. I listen to music all day at work. It’s usually the same music over & over again. I do it so I don’t sit on my office all day with the door shut. It’s doesn’t have to be loud, but I need it to occupy the actual hearing part of my brain so I don’t hear other conversations & have them start mixing in with my work inner dialogue.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Inner Monologue

« on: February 20, 2025, 12:57:53 AM »

For those of you that don’t have an inner monologue, how do you math in your head? It seems like this would be impossible for you.

If I’m doing more complex math in my head, I also have the ability to “see” a blackboard. This is hard to explain, but I “see” it up & to the right. When I use it my eyes will look up & right as if it’s actually there. I write on it in white text & visualize the strokes of the numbers & operators being written on it. Sometimes I’ll move my right index finger as if I’m writing the equation on it like it’s a touch pad.