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Grittybeard posted:Not a podcast exactly but if you haven't already seen it check out Jon Bois's thing on the Falcons. There's a lot going on there, and a lot of material. The Falcons one is good, plus the Vikings one as well. Both excellent, though there’s less of that dumb bird around for the Vikings naturally.
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LeeMajors posted:Wife and I both have “good insurance” and our daughter’s completely uncomplicated birth ran us like ~6k out of pocket. The bills were hilarious because they filed about 35k of charges with insurance. …I’m so glad I’m on Medicaid. And so sorry, that’s loving absurd.
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Joey Freshwater posted:Anything Jon Bois is pretty great tbf
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Kurgarra Queen posted:Just think of how much money a bunch of blood-sucking C-Suite psychopaths made! We prepared for it thankfully, but like 8 months of surprise bills from every separate provider who poked their head in the room was stressful as hell.
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I can't bring myself to watch the Falcons series because I know it ends with that loving Super Bowl and even though I'm not a Falcons fan I can't bear to relive Brady doing another bullshit Brady comeback. Vikings one was good though.
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a neat cape posted:Terramar Mexican Kitchen Thank you sir. I'll report back after I check it out!
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LeeMajors posted:We prepared for it thankfully, but like 8 months of surprise bills from every separate provider who poked their head in the room was stressful as hell. See my wife and I are ready for poo poo like that. Get an itemized bill and dispute anything we haven't personally documented ourselves. If heavy pushback, drop the words "insurance fraud" to the billing ghoul. Keeping your own documentation is a must these days as a patient when it comes to billing.
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Joey Freshwater posted:Anything Jon Bois is pretty great tbf harperdc posted:The Falcons one is good, plus the Vikings one as well. Both excellent, though there’s less of that dumb bird around for the Vikings naturally. Fifty Three posted:The Saddest Punt in the World and The Browns Live in Hell are also great Fourthing anything Jon Bois, they’re all amazing, including the ones on the 2010 Chargers, The Bob Emergency (Not strictly football but related). The man made multi hour documentaries on the Seattle Mariners and Dave Stieb extremely compelling.
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^^--I think the first one that really grabbed me way back when was the Lonnie Smith Pretty Good. That is a story I did not know, although I knew the baseball player.Grozz Nuy posted:I can't bring myself to watch the Falcons series because I know it ends with that loving Super Bowl and even though I'm not a Falcons fan I can't bear to relive Brady doing another bullshit Brady comeback. It starts with that Super Bowl! Right up to the point where the game was 'over.' ...then it pauses and goes back to everything Falcons, through all of the years. And there is a lot to parse there.
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The running gag across both the Falcons and Vikings documentaries of the one song blaring every time the Saints come waltzing into the picture will never get old. For all the cursed poo poo that's in existence right now, a small blessing is to be able to see what Jon Bois and Spencer Hall cook up.
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swickles posted:See my wife and I are ready for poo poo like that. Get an itemized bill and dispute anything we haven't personally documented ourselves. If heavy pushback, drop the words "insurance fraud" to the billing ghoul. Keeping your own documentation is a must these days as a patient when it comes to billing. The big bulk was two nights admission which were legit. There was an induction which cost slightly more and the epidural x2 because the first one only affected half her body. So there wasn’t anything that didn’t happen, it’s just that insurance didn’t cover enough imo for “good insurance”. It’s all ticky-tack technicalities where you have no choice but to pay premiums but they will scrap over every cent they pay out. Even incorrectly denying claims and requiring multiple filings. I know I’m screaming into the void here, but it’s all horseshit anyways because healthcare shouldn’t be a profit motivated industry in the first place. Death to rent-seeking behavior. LeeMajors fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Jan 27, 2024 |
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I love Democrat hateposting, Biden: NO! Newsom: NO! Hillary Clinton: NO! Bernie: NO! Buttigieg: NO! Klobuchar: NO! Whitmer: NO! Harris: NO! Obama: YES! WAIT, NO!!! Why won't the Democrats find someone I want to kiss and hug all day and night?? <gets absolutely destroyed under trump rule> Also for the Spam enthusiasts, I find it hard to beat two thick slices of fried (or steamed Spams) covered with pork & beans on two pieces of nice cheap white bread.
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Oh yeah, very cool looking trailer kiimo, hope it's a big success! Tell your team they did a good job getting the hype up, a lot of action trailers are meh/give away the entire movie. Also, you should try MY guac (I bought it at the mexican grocery store)
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T-Square posted:Post the Artisinal Board Games What is the group dynamic? Is it folks who want competitive, well balanced games or more of a let's get together and play lighter stuff? For five people, I still think Puerto Rico holds up as a classic. Wingspan is also good. Those games are going to appeal to two very different groups, however. Moving from four to five really cuts down on the choices, unfortunately.
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Ether Frenzy posted:I love Democrat hateposting, As stated before, anyone who campaigns and is slightly progressive gets stamped out with the full force of the machine. AOC only came about because of a massive grassroots campaign that was a direct rebuff to the establishment Dems, but the lesson learned there by the DNC was to just go further right.
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swickles posted:As stated before, anyone who campaigns and is slightly progressive gets stamped out with the full force of the machine. AOC only came about because of a massive grassroots campaign that was a direct rebuff to the establishment Dems, but the lesson learned there by the DNC was to just go further right. Well, that and they just went ahead and stamped the leftist directly out of her.
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The 50 year plot by the GOP to move the Overton window from Reagan's 6 or so on the 1-10 scale (With 1 being full gay space communism now, and 10 being literal fascism) to the 7 that we had under Obama onto the current 8.5 we're at is probably a bigger reason the majority of middle American democratic voters tend to go extremely milquetoast than some sort of behind the scenes machinations by Big Democrat. The majority of people in this country are not on CSPAM as much as it feels like for those of us who spend a lot of time online.
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Kalli posted:Moonrakers is fantastic, one of our group's favorite faster games. Way it works is on each player's turn, they have to pick a contract that has a bunch of card requirements and rewards points, money and sometimes cards. But are mostly too difficult to do solo, so you need to find people to help you for a cut of the profits. You then turn around and buy better cards / ship parts with your profits, and it's a race to 10 points. Great, great game. There's also a couple expansions that do things like give you an extra benefit for teaming up with people and a very degenerate expansion that introduces way more upgraded cards as well as new mission types. I love that last one, but it lets the game get very silly towards the end as you can like burn through 30 cards by yourself no problem soloing the hardest contracts, which does help the "no one will help the dude who needs 2 points to win" drag the game can have. Fully recommend the base game to start, it's pretty great right out of the box Hell yeah, thanks for the response! I did see the Titan edition with all of the expansions but that bad boy is like $200 so I’m probably just gonna pick up the base game cuz it’ll probably only get played once anyway  MrLogan posted:What is the group dynamic? Is it folks who want competitive, well balanced games or more of a let's get together and play lighter stuff? My plan was actually to just take them all to the brick and mortar game store and let them all run around and try to come to a consensus on what they’d like to play. They’re all pretty nerdy folks involved in a year+ long D&D campaign so I’m hopeful that they’ll like some heavier stuff. And yeah I know lol. I can’t really get a good dynamic of 3 or 4 together really, and either end up with coop games for just my partner and I, or 6+ which ends up being party games which I’m not super into so I’m happy to try to work with 5.
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LeeMajors posted:Well, that and they just went ahead and stamped the leftist directly out of her. "they" did it to her? why do you deny her agency to make informed decisions on her own? maybe she's just trying to well-represent her district
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Ether Frenzy posted:Also for the Spam enthusiasts, I find it hard to beat two thick slices of fried (or steamed Spams) covered with pork & beans on two pieces of nice cheap white bread. Your steamed Spams are obviously grilled.
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I’m watching Fast X your seatbelts and I find myself not caring about any of the storylines except John Cena’s. He’s actually pretty funny
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The grey cats are in a lap standoff. My grey girl is not fond of my grey foster boy and will hiss at him 90% of the time she sees him but they both will compromise when it comes to lap time. As long as she can pretend he's not there and he doesn't do anything to acknowledge her presence they can co-exist on my lap but the moment that pact is broken it's back to hissing and betrayal.
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Like sands in the litterbox, go the days of our lives
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pmchem posted:"they" did it to her? why do you deny her agency to make informed decisions on her own? maybe she's just trying to well-represent her district Or was she co-opting leftist talking points in a blatant ploy at careerism all along???? The end result is another ineffectual dem politician, what does it matter?
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The lifecycle of a leftist politician is either to get elected and immediately fail the purity test when you have to make a compromise, or to never compromise and immediately get voted out because you didn’t do poo poo.
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ohh earthrider, thanks for the Great Lakes
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Freaquency posted:The lifecycle of a leftist politician is either to get elected and immediately fail the purity test when you have to make a compromise, or to never compromise and immediately get voted out because you didn’t do poo poo. It's like being a weird indie punk band, that accidentally starts to sell records? Sellout
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Joey Freshwater posted:Wait what the movie just fuckin ends like that? It does. It was conceived as a two-parter that would be filmed back-to-back, but after the budget skyrocketed and it under-performed at the box office, they went back to rewriting the eleventh movie and are nowhere near being ready for shooting. And now that Vin Diesel has a fairly ugly sexual assault beef against him (to go alongside his unprofessional behavior making Justin Lin quit as director only a few days of filming on Fast X), his level of involvement in Fast 11 is very much an open question.
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Joey Freshwater posted:Wait what the movie just fuckin ends like that? Yeah, my three favorite movies last year ended on cliff hangers. I knew about X and MI, but Across the Spider-verse was a surprise.
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Grozz Nuy posted:I can't bring myself to watch the Falcons series because I know it ends with that loving Super Bowl and even though I'm not a Falcons fan I can't bear to relive Brady doing another bullshit Brady comeback. yeah, i can't watch the last part of the falcons series because i don't want to relive 28-3 even turned off the game after the end of regulation because it was so goddamn inevitable
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AOC isn’t some otherwise good leftist who did one thing wrong and so twitterverse determined she failed some hyperbolic purity test. The reality is that she consistently supports bad things. She sucks.
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LeeMajors posted:Wife and I both have “good insurance” and our daughter’s completely uncomplicated birth ran us like ~6k out of pocket. The bills were hilarious because they filed about 35k of charges with insurance. HMOs for life. gently caress paying a deductible.
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Ornery and Hornery posted:AOC isn’t some otherwise good leftist who did one thing wrong and so twitterverse determined she failed some hyperbolic purity test. So we've established that the People's Front of Judea hates the Judean People's Front due to irreconcilable differences, and there are no good Leftists or Democrats. It's very difficult to say how the chudbots who support literally anything that the messaging system tells them to support keep seeming like "The majority"
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Joey Freshwater posted:I’m watching Fast X your seatbelts and I find myself not caring about any of the storylines except John Cena’s. He’s actually pretty funny he asked the question that's never been asked in any Transformers media before https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAbD32FUcjo
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Ether Frenzy posted:So we've established that the People's Front of Judea hates the Judean People's Front due to irreconcilable differences, and there are no good Leftists or Democrats. Trying to litigate who is appropriately left or not is a fools errand won by whoever is the most stubborn. This Hamilton Nolan piece is pretty reflective of how I feel about the sliding scale of leftism in the US: quote:They can still be allies. The Left always needs allies. Coalitions, built with allies, are the only way to win. But allies are a distinct category. They are people who we only expect to be right on a particular issue, rather than on fundamental values. Even if AOC isn’t a “true leftist” you should still see her as an ally and a focus on how she doesn't fit perfectly in your mold of what makes a leftist is intensely myopic. And for what it’s worth Nolan is pretty left and sees AOC similarly but maybe he’s actually a shitlib too.
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The problem with people who can think for themselves is they all have a different opinion of what specific unicorn project they care most about is True Leftism vs what is Shitlibbery
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