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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Signs of getting old

« on: March 10, 2025, 11:16:39 AM »

Lower back pain. What the hell? I've consistently worked out forever and continue to do so, but my lower back is basically sore all the freaking time now even when i'm not working out. I know I need to stretch more (or any at all), but what can I do to make this stop? Should I be yogaing?

A non-invasive Chiropractor has really helped me.  Try to find one that uses the Torque Release Technique.  There were times where I couldn't stand up out of bed in the morning, but that hasn't happened once since I have been going (several years)

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

« on: February 28, 2025, 09:37:33 AM »

Explain the appeal of the pitt

A few things appeal to me:

1. Interesting/informative look into what goes on in an ER. Obviously it's dramatized, but it's just as focused on handling actual emergency situations as opposed to a drama that takes place in a hospital.
2. Love the pace of everything happening in real time and jumping between cases of various severities.
3. The format gives lots of opportunities to reflect on big themes like the fragility of life, ethical responsibilities, etc. without feeling forced.

Agreed - A regular medical drama might have a sad death episode and then a happy save a life episode on separate weeks.  This weaves those stories throughout the season but any episode could hit on multiple themes.  That feels more real to me than other medical shows.  The individual patients affecting how individuals act the rest of the day is interesting as well and can be more clearly illustrated in this format.  As catastrophe mentioned, it also keeps some of the interpersonal crap minimized as opposed to a show like Grey's that focuses on it.

It's still very much a medical drama and isn't pioneering totally new territory, but it's presenting it in a way that focuses on the aspects I like the most.

The swimming pool story line got me real good, ugh!

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

« on: February 20, 2025, 02:18:49 PM »

https://x.com/hutchinson/status/1892617276546814418

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

« on: February 20, 2025, 02:14:55 PM »

https://x.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1892641771571618126

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency

« on: February 19, 2025, 04:41:10 PM »

If you believe what some Federal workers are claiming at an anecdotal level, then regardless of what goes on in Congress. Federal jobs need to be cut. Because the WFH'ers are running their side gigs and not doing their Federal jobs.

Being very familiar with one agency, the USDA, I do agree that the methods used there, were not good. They have a systemic performance review process, at least on the research side.

God damnit Chum. You and the 7 other people with side jobs are responsible for the deficit. 

Tell me where I said the WFH were responsible for the deficit?

Your shtick of perpetual Trump rage has made you an even bigger derp.


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From first hand experience, the WFH'ers with side gigs are not the ones getting cut.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Countdown to 2032 Asteroid 2024 YR4

« on: February 13, 2025, 10:19:44 AM »

How much damage does a 300ft asteroid cause, let's say, if it lands in the ocean.

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

« on: February 12, 2025, 12:57:45 PM »

It’s still a useful anecdote to illustrate the challenges of the federal government and the opportunities, but was super misleading the way that he portrayed it while standing in the oval office.

yes, also this link shows 138,000 retirements were processed in 2014 which makes his claim of 10000 per month because of an elevator seem dubious. https://www.opm.gov/retirement-center/retirement-statistics/

even then, why would you need the capacity to process 10000 retirements in a month when you have only had the annual equivalent of 10000 per month once in the last 25 years?

And in theory, shouldn't there be less fed employees hitting retirement after their "cleanout" anyway?

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: KSU Cat Michael Beasley to Lakers? (nope phoenix) (oh wait yep, lakers!!!)

« on: February 12, 2025, 11:34:52 AM »

Friend works at the airport and the issue was that he kept it in a jar with a metal lid that got caught on the metal detector. Still, wtf, pretend you don't know what's in it and have him throw it away if you're TSA.

No doubt he flew into Manhattan with that same jar (including more weed) without issue.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: KSU Cat Michael Beasley to Lakers? (nope phoenix) (oh wait yep, lakers!!!)

« on: February 11, 2025, 11:20:56 AM »

Yeah, every single person who saw him in person, or on tv this weekend, knew he was high and had weed.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: CHIEFS

« on: February 10, 2025, 11:34:15 AM »

This is spot on...

https://mnchiefsfan.substack.com/p/so-this-is-what-this-feels-like

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Kansas State Football / Re: 202x Coaching Carousel

« on: February 07, 2025, 10:32:42 AM »

https://x.com/PeteThamel/status/1887884099764858908

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?

« on: January 15, 2025, 10:36:03 AM »

Nothing like the price on a flight in the Chase portal being 2.5x times the price on the airline website.

To get the value of Chase UR you basically just have to transfer them to a partner, right?

I don’t really need to transfer them to Hyatt as I already get the Marriott family discount.

I booked one on Chase Travel the other day that was exactly the same price (SWA), but that is the first time I have found them to be the same.

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Kansas State Football / Re: 12 Team Playoff

« on: January 03, 2025, 11:13:02 AM »

I'm guessing Texas beats OSU and Notre Dame beats Penn State, then Texas beats Notre Dame.

OSU and former cat William Howard winning the whole thing.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: It’s time to have a conversation about Jerome Tang

« on: December 18, 2024, 10:40:15 AM »

Fans are expecting to win, as they were told.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: CHIEFS

« on: December 18, 2024, 10:34:48 AM »

I don't really post in this thread, not a chiefs fan, so this may have been discussed but I just read that CEH was released because of problems related to PTSD. His PTSD comes from him killing a dude that tried to rob him and a teammate. CEH said that his PTSD has led to hospitalizations. Sad crap.

The chiefs really did right by him in the sense that they kept him on the roster until they needed the space.  They could have cut him, and 10 years ago he probably would have been.

Rumor is they kept him just long enough to become vested with permanent health insurance.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: CHIEFS

« on: December 16, 2024, 02:27:26 PM »

If the stupid Lions knew how to manage a 4th Q we might not be in this spot. They onside kicked with 10 min left and then misused their timeouts by letting it go to the 2 min warning smh.

That onside kick call was egregious, but Lions still werent winning that game.  They couldnt stop the Bills at all.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: What streaming services do you have and how much do you like them?

« on: December 13, 2024, 10:39:34 AM »

The nice thing about YTTV is that you can divvy out subs with a few pals and share. I use a subscription from a pal who hooked me up.

This only works if you live in the same area, FYI.

Actually, you only have to login to the home area once every 3 months to use it wherever you want.  And Chrome has nice built in location spoofing tool to do that from anywhere.

Are you casting it to your TV?

When casually watching I just use the app for whatever device I am on.  You only have to do one login from the home area to get it back to the 3 month "travel" usage, so I use Chrome for that login.  I suppose using a vpn for that would work as well.   For reference, our family account home area is in Austin, I live in Portland, and set my account's area to Portland.  I have to login "from Austin" every 3 months, and it all just works.

What's the Chrome plugin? Zenmate?

I just add the home area coordinates in Sensors under Tools (https://williamkoehrsen.medium.com/controlling-your-location-in-google-chrome-6c0b216d1ba1).  The only pain is you have to completely logout of all Chrome browsers, clear all cache, turn off location, etc.

You can also just send your account\password to whoever actually lives in the home area and have them login there for you.  I just personally don't like that option.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: What streaming services do you have and how much do you like them?

« on: December 13, 2024, 10:23:38 AM »

The nice thing about YTTV is that you can divvy out subs with a few pals and share. I use a subscription from a pal who hooked me up.

This only works if you live in the same area, FYI.

Actually, you only have to login to the home area once every 3 months to use it wherever you want.  And Chrome has nice built in location spoofing tool to do that from anywhere.

Are you casting it to your TV?

When casually watching I just use the app for whatever device I am on.  You only have to do one login from the home area to get it back to the 3 month "travel" usage, so I use Chrome for that login.  I suppose using a vpn for that would work as well.   For reference, our family account home area is in Austin, I live in Portland, and set my account's area to Portland.  I have to login "from Austin" every 3 months, and it all just works.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: What streaming services do you have and how much do you like them?

« on: December 13, 2024, 10:07:37 AM »

The nice thing about YTTV is that you can divvy out subs with a few pals and share. I use a subscription from a pal who hooked me up.

This only works if you live in the same area, FYI.

Actually, you only have to login to the home area once every 3 months to use it wherever you want.  And Chrome has nice built in location spoofing tool to do that from anywhere.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: What streaming services do you have and how much do you like them?

« on: December 12, 2024, 11:31:11 AM »

YTTV just announced another $10 price hike. Up to $82 a month. I started at $35 

I'm not happy about this. I only have it for live sports from the start of KSU football in the fall until the end of March Madness. Still have to get ESPN+ to access a lot of games I want to watch.
I think Disney+ is the only other sub I have right now.
May have to take another look at what the cost for for Hulu plus live TV's bundle with Disney+ and ESPN+ would be

Echo this. Rather upset ngl. I get prices were always going to go up but to be paying 2.5x when I started and it's mostly just for sports is insane.

I still think i'm more pissed about them adding the comedy central channels and jacking up the price while telling us how great it was that they added channels I didn't ask for. I guess I'm just yelling at clouds since I never do anything about it, but at some point I should probably look for alternatives since we just don't watch much tv in our house.

find a buddy/family member or two to share it with. I'm in the same boat, rarely (never) watch live TV but I need my sports fixin's. I share YTTV with two other friends and just give him cash once a year for my share. I'm sure sometime in the future they will make this impossible to do like netflix has but they haven't done it yet.

This is the way.  Also to get around the 3 simultaneous streams, you can use your individual youtube tv profile to login to apps (ESPN, MAX, etc)

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: CHIEFS

« on: December 09, 2024, 10:58:57 AM »

Win two more and lock up the #1 seed?

They would need 3 more if Buffalo wins out. Bills would have the tie-breaker

Steelers are 10-3 and play the Chiefs on Christmas, so they are still very much alive for the #1 seed.

Correct. Steelers have @Eagles, and @Ravens next 2.  Bills have @Lions this week.  This could be all but done this weekend.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: GolfCats

« on: November 22, 2024, 01:05:58 PM »

Golf clubs question for the better players on this blog: 

I am improving, but still a high handicapper.  When I got started agin this summer I knew I needed more modern clubs than my 2002 Bertha irons and my 1998ish Biggest Big Bertha Diver, so I used mygolfspy.com to research “super game improvement” irons and just bought the ones that seemed to be a wise choice for a near beginner.  I got the 2024 third place club in their Super Game improvement category, which are the Cleveland Halo’s, just because they seemed the most stupid friendly and I wanted it make things as easy to get re-started on golf as possible.

https://mygolfspy.com/buyers-guides/irons/best-super-game-improvement-irons-of-2024/

I like that the halos have good distance, and they definitely seem to have a large sweet spot. I could probably be happy with these clubs for quite a while, but I am wondering if I would be better off moving to a “Game Improvement” iron instead of “Super Game Improvement” at some point in the near future? Is it better to start getting used to an iron that I am likely to like a lot longer as I improve? Or, do I wait quite a while longer to do a fitting and only dare to change when the data shows I absolutely hit better with a different club?

I practice almost every day and take regular lessons. My current rate of improvement is pretty darn good (or at least I am super pleased by it).

The best advice I can give, based on experience, is to get your clubs fitted.  I did this a couple years ago when buying new irons (TM P790s), and my handicap dropped from a 20 to a 13.  A good fitting company can tweak literally everything on the club according to your swing.  If you feel like your current irons aren't going be long term for you, I would go to get a fitting and chat with them about what you are looking for long term.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: CHIEFS

« on: November 05, 2024, 01:24:29 PM »

Demarcus Robinson if he stays healthy will set some career highs. He's probably the best example.

Disagree on this example.  DRob is 4 years removed from KC, and while he is having a statistically better year this year, he didn't the last 2.  Embree wasn't even the WR coach when he was on the team either.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Predictit (sys, Justwin, and KK talk)

« on: November 01, 2024, 12:34:19 PM »

Creating fake polls to say Trump is up by a lot seems dumb on their part. Lots of people didn't vote for Hilary because they were told she was going to win in blowout fashion.

It's all part of the "election was stolen" part II.

Of course. My comment was more pointing out that they are more invested in the stolen election bullshit than they're invested in actually winning the election.

Agreed

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Predictit (sys, Justwin, and KK talk)

« on: November 01, 2024, 12:22:05 PM »

Creating fake polls to say Trump is up by a lot seems dumb on their part. Lots of people didn't vote for Hilary because they were told she was going to win in blowout fashion.

It's all part of the "election was stolen" part II.