Lostin76

Dude is a boot-licking farce of a human being, but I love this. It’s an old, but amazing tactic to use against these polluters. There’s a great clip from a few years with farmers at a meeting with fracking companies and the farmer is at the table pouring the murky water for the natural gas a#$holes. Found it:

Need to jump all over them from the outset and never let up. They have to be pissed after that NW game.

I get that EXACT feeling with this team. I’ve only been able to watch a handful, but every time the game never seems in doubt. You just expect them to win. Kind of like how it used to be with the fellas. But this thread is about the women’s team, so don’t want to belabor that point.

Totally agree with you. Mayor Pete does not seem like a great pick so far.

That’s obviously wrong. But you act surprised that the govt doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to? It’s broken. The a#$holes we foolishly elect have broken it and they don’t care as long as they get paid and have their pension for life.

Was he scheduled to show up like they were though? Doesn’t matter really, this would be on his watch and he needs to have a better response than a Twitter post.

Saw somewhere that the train company people did not show up for the town hall. Not a good look for them to try to hide.

Early drive to MD this morning, so I didn’t watch the game. Saw we were down almost 20 at half. Kind of surprised we got that close. Sound like I can watch the second half and be prepared to be pissed off.

Much respect to you for dealing with this. That is a lot of factors to navigate and escape from. I’ve never had any major mental health issues, beyond a fairly addictive personality, LOTS of drugs when younger (weed, acid, any pills, meth, cocaine, you name it). The military helped me escape that part of my life. Never dealt with any type of abuse in my own family, but my best friend and I used to have to hide under the bed or in the closet when his Dad came home drinking. That used to terrify me and I still think of to this day. I never knew how my friend handled it back then. Turns out he didn’t very well, b/c he killed himself shortly after high school. Glad you had/have some people in your life to help you, brother. As an aside, I will say that some of my time in the Navy was as a Psych Tech. Saw some really scary things and also saw a lot of young people totally ruined by overly aggressive treatment/medication regimen. I’m still haunted to this day by a very young and beautiful Marine, who was totally taken advantage of and ruined. To watch such a beautiful person just stare at the wall drooling b/c of her Lithium dose was really hard. She ended up “dating” one of my coworkers. Went to a party of his and she was there totally trashed and living with him. The dude had treated her on the ward and now he was living with her. We had a pretty quick/ugly parting of the ways that night.

THIS is the way. This is walking the walk. It is so hard to unlearn all of the stuff that food producers do and try to push on us. Just illuminating the way a typical grocery store is physically set up can be eye-opening to people and start them on their journey as informed consumers. I can’t like this post enough. Oh man, my love and reverence for Indiana is so strong. If anything I probably romanticize my small town Indiana upbringing to the nth degree. But, it’s such a huge part of who I am. But, I always wanted to see a lot of the world (joined the Navy, and promptly went NOWHERE besides Great Lakes, IL, San Antonio, TX, Charleston, SC, and finally Bethesda, MD). But that experience made me hungry for more cultures, sights, and adventures. I don’t know why that would ever be a bad thing - to experience other cultures, or be open to other cultures. But that’s now apparently a fault according to many.

It’s definitely a thing. As another Southern Indiana kid (🙌🏼) just desperate to get out of my small town I was often made fun of or mocked as “too good for us.” Joining the military was okay in everyone’s eyes, but college? That was questioned. I was the first person in my family to go to college. And got a lot of, “why would you want to do that?” I’ve also received a lot of blowback for living in Brooklyn. Doesn’t really bother me. I’m not less “real,” b/c of where I live or what I do. But I am a more complete and better person for the experiences. Some people think it’s okay to insult my choices or make fun of where I live, but if I were to turn around and do the same to them, then those are fighting words…

Watched the OSU game last night. We outmatched them from the start. OSU was missing a key player form last time, but they just had no chance. There were a couple of times that I looked away from the screen to do something and then we were up by another 6 or 8 points so quickly.

Yeah, wasn’t calling you out, hence my first sentence. I agree that mental health is super important. I just don’t like that it’s usually only talked about after mass shootings. It’s important then to take the heat off guns, but then once the news fades, the mental health talk fades.

You are 100% correct. Not just cities. Basically anywhere that they can get away with this stuff they will do so. They probably figured the “ignorant hillbillies” wouldn’t complain, while they know the suburban Karens will.

Some really interesting interviews - bookmarked for future listens. They are the worst. We have a particularly thick crop of NIMBYs here. I don’t necessarily enjoy having sleeping homeless people with their shoes off next to me on my subway commute, but I’m also not going to hassle them or ask the cops to move them. If you are homeless, that warm sleep session on a subway train might be the safest, quietest place you get to sleep that day. Watching some of these liberal Brooklynites get totally bent out of shape b/c a homeless person dares to sleep on “their train” really irks me. Really great point. “Food deserts” are real in many big cities and small towns. What we have available to us within easy walking distance is VASTLY different than what someone in East New York or the Bronx has. They will get tons of cheap clothing boutiques and cell phone repair shops instead of decent grocery stores.

A couple of Case knives and a couple Great Eastern Cutlery knives added lately. Couldn’t resist using SZA’s magazine cover story as background. The Case knife on top is a Eureka Jack collaboration between Case and Tony Bose - incredible tolerances and the jigging on the brown bone is so nice. What I’m finding about exploring these knives is that there in such an incredible and rich history of these cutlery companies. For a history nerd like me, this is catnip. When I was a kid I always just had a Case knife in my pocket (most likely a Canoe with the Indian Chief etching on the blade), but never thought anything about it. It was just a knife and if I lost it, I would have to buy another one with my meager allowance or paper route money.

It really is. I’m not saying fast food and packaged foods are evil (I enjoy both in moderation), but if it’s all people eat then I don’t see how their mental and physical health is exactly humming along on all cylinders. And I’ll toss in my “get off my lawn whippersnappers” line of “why don’t kids play outside anymore?” It’s a double whammy of low activity and bad food. Whisk that together with constant social media and media media blaring from our screens day and night and it’s not a good combo.

I agree with some of that. But we know that redistributing wealth to the rich doesn’t really trickle down to anyone. It’s one of the greatest lies we’ve been fed. We throw money at rich people, Wall Street, airlines, etc and it just enriches their bottom lines. More dividends, more bonuses. But no one wants to spend money on a mental health center. And god forbid it’s in their back yard.

Great example of little things at the local level that can impact people. Fresh, healthy food and exercise would be a great start for people. That’s the exact type of work I’ve been supporting in Population Health for decades. It can and does work locally. We have one of our faculty who has partnered with barbershops in Harlem to talk about blood pressure and colorectal cancer with their patrons. Hugely successful, b/c these dudes might not trust doctors, but they do trust their barber.

Would love to see Kopp just go off for his final game in NW. We know he’s capable.

Not calling out anyone on here for posting about mental health. It desperately needs attention. BUT, we have a political class that doesn’t care what happens to the weak, poor, or the mentally ill. This is Merica! We pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and if you can’t hack it, you can f*#k off and get out of our way. We’ve got some shopping and eating to do! After the usual thoughts and prayers there will be comments about funding mental health. And then they will go right back to not funding mental health. Wash, rinse, repeat, ad nauseam. There is nowhere for these people to go except on the street or in jail. Neither place helps them and both make a bad problem worse. But let’s keep pushing those tax breaks through for the rich. If you are poor or insane, it’s probably your own fault, right??? I grew up a poor kid. We waited in line for govt cheese. I had to join the military to be able to afford college. So much went right for me to be this successful today. Yes, I prepared, worked hard, and hustled, but I was also a white male, which really helped. The young people I know today are smarter than I was, they hustle just as hard as I did, but they also know how hard it’s going to be to be successful in this world. We talk about it a lot and I don’t know what to tell them. I’ve totally lost faith in our political class and don’t expect anything to change. These kids have never had faith in our political or economic system. They know the rich protect the rich, and spend their dollars and time turning the poor against each other on BS social justice issues.

It’s a very odd world that these kids are having to grow up in. I don’t envy them. Just yesterday, I kept seeing the headlines about how many young women/teenage girls are depressed and or suicidal. More so than boys.

I had the same thought when I was watching the last women’s game. Heck of a duo leading our teams this year. Would love to see them both repaid for their efforts with a DEEP tourney run.

I taped the game and then just checked the score this morning. Wow, did not expect a full on curb stomp. Excited to watch this after work!

Yeah, that was a head scratcher. But as The Strokes once so eloquently sang back in the day: