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@George-K said in New Glenn:

@taiwan_girl
If you look at clips from "The Right Stuff," there's a whole sequence of US rockets in the early 60s blowing up. It would have been a national embarrassment if the Apollo missions had failed (look at Apollo 1!).

Good call about that movie. Similarly, and I've mentioned it a few times recently I know, the movie First Man is really "authentic" and you see some of the closer calls they had to deal with such as the first successful docking (Gemini 😎 but resulting near-disaster when it went into an uncontrolled roll. Very intense. And of course during the actual Apollo 11 moon landing let's not talk about how they were down to the last few seconds of fuel before touching ground.

What, Trump had nothing to do with the ceasefire?

I should believe that guy, right?

Go to 4:00.

I haven’t either but when AO discussed the case they mentioned who he was.

@jon-nyc said in Are You Smarter Than a Cabinet Nominee? Round 1:

I’d tell the truth.

‘Of course not. and don’t even bother asking any other nominees. If we were such people we wouldn’t be here because he’s selecting for fealty, not strength or independence’.

Snort…

I would have been stressed when young because I wouldn’t have known what I was doing. I’d be more stressed now because I still don’t know what I’m doing AND my hands have a bit of a tremor from tacrolimus.

@Doctor-Phibes said in RIP David Lynch:

@Aqua-Letifer said in RIP David Lynch:

not personally familiar with Frisell; great thing to look up over the weekend!

He's definitely worth spending some time with - I discovered him a few years back. There's quite a bit on YT that's worth a watch. He has a much more thoughtful and melodic approach to guitar improv than is typically the case.

This isn't a jazz gateway drug, though, is it? Because I'm going to level with you, I already hang out with a rabbit, read poetry and play D&D on the weekends, my social credit can't really take another hit. I'm at rock bottom here.

@Axtremus said in The moment you knew you picked the wrong partner:

Pppffft ... you know that list is hopelessly biased when you don't see "when I found out s/he voted for Trump" on the list.

Actually, a more accurate representation might be "When I found out that s/he 'unfriended' someone because of the way that person voted."

I agree with @George-K and @Aqua-Letifer

The deceases are pretty big.

#firstworldproblem

I still haven’t gone through the pickleball stage of late middle aged white folk yet. Puzzles and then finally bingo are even further out.

@89th said in The Hegseth "incident.":

Why did she leave her boots in a field? Seems unnecessary. Hopefully she had flip flops or good socks.

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I was working with a neurosurgeon who was extracting some of these cysts from the posterior fossa of a patient's brain.

As he pulled one out, he purposefully let it fall to the floor and yelled "This one's MOVING." The circulating nurse just about fainted.

Of course, it wasn't moving, he just wanted to freak Maryanne out. He succeeded.

Good times.

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@George-K said in The Difference Between Campaigning and Governing:

Now USA has to insert the age of the President-elect...because TDS.

Well it’s also pretty historic. He will be the oldest person ever to be sworn in to the office. By a number of months. lol

They all had to be federal, so lots of DEA involvement. The DEA doesn't go after little guys.

I'm all for it, but the devil, as usual, is in the details. Will it be an effective bill, or will it just put a veneer over the issue.

@jon-nyc said in It didn't work:

In my case it wasn’t a big deal but if I lived there I’d definitely make a habit out of getting it delivered from Amazon rather than go through that every time I need a toiletry or OTC med. especially since AMZN is cheaper.

Actually, I did have a couple of conversations with pharmacists about this. Both noted all the footage devoted to cosmetics, food, toys, etc., is killing them. Both mentioned online shopping trends as being the reason.

A note about drugs...One of the pharms I talked with is a local guy that graduated high school with my son. He runs a very busy independent pharmacy (400 scrips/day) and is making a decent living. His business approach? Just enough OTC stuff for some people's conveniance...We're talking fifteen total feet of single-sided counter. He will somewhat discourage his customers from the latest and greatest high-dollar meds...Walmart or Walgreens can get that for you faster or cheaper. He deals mostly in generics or older drugs still under patent (his profit margin is higher. For some of the new stuff like Mounjaro, he can actually lose money on a scrip). The guy works very hard to ensure his customers get the lowest price on their scrips, sometimes advising them to use a card like GoodRx rather than their insurance. He's very good on service issues andtalking with providors.

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This is going to confuse the shit out of the aliens.