Everything posted by TwiceHorn
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Epic movies or shows you haven't gotten around to watching
It's probably been mentioned, but from Season 1 alone, The Wire looks like maybe an above-average police procedural, with some excessive focus on the targets of the cops. That genre has kind of been done to death, in the 20 some odd years since The Wire premiered, if not before. Then you get the Season 2 wtf, and then the greatness of it begins to dawn on you. And it does have a ton of incredible scenes and dialog, but I get that that's not enough to hold people.
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Texas -- a failed state
Say it with your chest, boy. Says the anonymous aggy on a neighborhood message board.
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JD Vance Fucked 5 couches as a hillbilly, then went on to kill the pope
I think, way back in the old days, they might have muted booing of say Nixon out of "respect for the office" or something. It was disingenuous then and worse now.
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Trump’s America
A friend has a MAGAt at their gym that wears a lot of gear and attempts to engage the friend and others on political topics constantly. Most recently, he was heard stating that he was losing faith in dear leader because of too much foreign stuff, too much focus abroad.
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2026 Midterms ...
Also among rurals I bet there's a good bit of surname not matching birth surname, as I can see a lot of those births coming out of wedlock or followed by multiple remarriages and name takings, if not adoptions.
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Trump’s America
Kinda looked like a white guy administered the coup de grace there. Must have been an Antifa member. Any idea where that was?
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Do We Have a Christ Followers Thread?
I know, just saying how it should be. And how it actually is for a bunch of actual Christians.
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Trump’s America
It's a bit of a quandary. Mass is one of the most intelligently liberal states in the union, and Boston is more or less the epicenter of it. But going back in time to the busing riots, it exposed a pretty savage underbelly of racism there. It was every bit of Little Rock Central HS and Selma, Al.
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Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
Jack shit. I think that was pretty out in the open here. This was regime change/no nation building from jump. Maybe this notion of trickle down from revitalizing oil using US O&G, which is proving to be a pipe dream that just about anyone could have foreseen. As disastrous as our efforts at post-regime-change nation building have been, it seems immoral to do one without the other. So, maybe no regime-change, eh?
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Trump’s America
The Penn Station/Dulles thing is so perfectly on brand for him. It's one of those sort of in vino veritas things. Meaning, it is totally true, he's give Schumer whatever he wants for those things. But it's also outrageous enough that he can say "jk, jk, can't you people take a joke" if called on it.
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Trump’s America
At this point, I'm surprised Putin hasn't offered to rename Ukraine after him if he will force Ukraine capitulate. Or maybe Zelensky should try that. And he is so fucking jealous of Obamacare. And the fact that the people and media dubbed it that instead of Obama himself. I have to begrudge Trump that licensing his name is good business, in the same sense that Kardashians are astute business people (meaning, they are, but they aren't, really). But the reality is, that's a happy accident for him because the real reason he does it is he loves to see his name on things, Even really shitty things. And he probably doesn't get enough in return.
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Do We Have a Christ Followers Thread?
Well, birth and a special set of bootstraps.
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Do We Have a Christ Followers Thread?
That's a perversion of the notion of evangelization. Not saying you perverted it. As I think has been mentioned, real Christian evangelization is spreading the faith by education and example, not coercion or force. Making people want to adopt the faith, not forcing them to. I think true Christian doctrine recognizes that man's world is man's, while God's is God's and any attempt to merge the two is futile. Render unto Caesar. So, even voting for a fellow Christian in hopes that he will make government more Christian is a futility and not something commanded. And certainly any overt effort to convert government to a "Christian" government, by any means, including electing the AntiChrist, is a fools errand and not commanded.
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Trump’s America
Thanks for the input. IVF is an interesting category, setting aside any politics. I suspect there's a fairly small market for them. I have no idea what the insurance coverage situation is. And I might guess that both the incremental cost of production of those drugs is relatively high along with the fixed/sunk cost of development, leading to their great expense.
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Trump’s America
Maybe in some cases. Like, I see the Lispro is in a vial, whereas the current state of the art is in a (patented I'm sure) injection pen. Does that make any real difference, probably not. Maybe a bit more dose precision or accuracy for the elderly or really inept. But I think the key is, these discounts were already mostly available through direct sales from pharmas, which I think they do to deflect criticism. Also probably available through Cuban's deal.
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Trump’s America
A cult of the stupid and banal, at that. Fucking Kid Rock.
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Epstein and Maxwell
So, does a guy like that even "practice the law" anymore? I'm relatively certain being chairman or whatever title managing a good-sized law firm is a pretty full-time job, just on the management part alone. Then you add in the influence-seeking and power-brokering, and fuhgeddaboutit. And this seems to be where you get entangled with people like Epstein that can make or destroy a career. Also, hasn't he been chairman or whatever for a long time? AFAIK, most Biglaw rotate these guys in and out for about a year. Then they go back to practicing the law. Also, in litigation law, we know the bigshots try cases periodically, while the more transactional guys sit in boardrooms and give broad strokes advice backed up by the juniors and associates who actually do the work. I've always been in smaller firms where the bigshots, even some of pretty national prominence, spend huge amounts of time on the phone and in meetings dispensing broad strokes advice, but still basically practice the law, even if it's not in the trenches.
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Trump’s America
So, this TrumpRX site is now live. First off, the name. Christ on a crutch. It offers drugs, through pharmacy and manufacturer coupons or direct sales, at a "discount." A whopping 43 drugs, including the wildly popular GLP-1 weight loss drugs. The only basis for comparison I can find is GLP-1's the prices of which are roughly equivalent to what the manufacturers were already offering on their websites. Also, reduced prices or the best rate only available through the end of April. If anyone sees a drug that is at a significant discount to what's already available, I'd be interested to know. For example, I see Lispro insulin "starting at 25." But I see goodrx coupons for from 31 to 51. But it's hard to apples-to-apples that. Also note that because these are purchased outside insurance, it doesn't contribute to deductible. So, overall, seems like a bullshitty, attention grabbing move that's not really making a dent in the problem or solving anyone's issues in a significant way. And the name, oh sweet Jesus, the name.
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2026 Midterms ...
Also goes by Immac.
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Trump’s America
The specter of electoral life without Trump is becoming more real. Their wall of stupid cruelty and racism is crumbling a little bit.
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Trump’s America
Y'know, I never said she shouldn't be disbarred. I just said it was going to be harder than everyone thought, and then the Bar tripped over its dick. And I explained that.
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Your unpopular food opinions
And I don't get downtown, or even uptown much anymore. I've only been to their North Dallas location, quite some time ago. It appears to be the only location now. https://delinewsdallas.com/contact/ But yeah it was a pretty authentic deli.