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Hot women

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my wife is going thru menopause and has had many sleepless nights because of the hot flashes, lack of sleep, etc.

currently taking hormone replacement stuff and that has mostly helped w/ most of the symptoms.

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My wife went through that last year. It was rough. And the haywire hormone balances were not fun. It took a lot more patience, sympathy, and compassion for the increased frequency of crying or yelling.

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i am working on the "increased compassion" part

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My wife is completely obsessive about how much sleep she gets; the amount of daily complaining about that *plummeted* after her doctor prescribed hormone patches. Real quality of life improvement.

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my wife has the patch too. every so often it falls off or runs out, but mostly it has been great.

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apparently many women's health issues go largely ignored by medical research and $$ of effort. menopause is not considered a "disease" so when you have symptoms, the primary reaction is that "sorry, it sucks for everyone"

my wife, who works in pharma, is looking to start up some projects at work that would start to change some of the narrative and allocation of $$

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Mrs Slug and I also agree with Scootie. Sometimes you need hard butter for baking; not often, though. Otherwise, it's out on the counter. A stick doesn't last 4 days; often, not even 3 days.

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With a household of 5, we never worry about butter going bad and even if we leave for vacation, unless the temps have been really high, it seems to keep for weeks.

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SHE BLINDED ME WITH...

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First private company tries to land on the moon, crashes instead, but the lander takes some shots before dying - just like the passengers of Bus #2

https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/days-before-dying-japans-lunar-lander-snaps-glorious-photo-of-earth-during-a-total-solar-eclipse

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In your opinion, aggressive drivers drive this car:

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i definitely drive more aggressively in the WRX than the Volvo SUV.

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Seen more than a fair share of aggressive Tesla drivers, tho they may not be driving…

Also seen a fair share of slow-a$$ Tesla drivers as well, though again, they may not be driving…

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- Teslas

- Raised suspension Ford F150

- Charger / Challenger

- Any late model Japanese brand sedan going >75mph

That said, aggressive driving is more of a way of life for many of my fellow Maryland residents, so it's distributed across a wide variety of cars, trucks, and commercial vehicles.

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I agree with this list and would add any late-model sedan, foreign or domestic with tinted windows, and it seems to always be a white dude wearing outdated sunglasses, smoking a cig, with the driver seat titled back extremely far, driving way faster than a car of that make and model year should be driven.

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A week ago I saw two aggressive Tesla drivers within a space of about 4 minutes on my commute home.

One was pissed because I passed him on the right as he was at a standstill behind a car making a left turn; he honked at me for passing him.

The second one nearly hit a pair pedestrians as the driver was trying to enter a parking lot.

I've got other examples observed as a pedestrian. I absolutely do not trust Teslas when I'm walking because they tend to be driven aggressively more often than not.

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Most Tesla drivers in Orange County are slow as hell

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Prius drivers are similar, in that either they're slow as hell trying to hypermile or driving super fast and aggressive.

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Challenger or BMW

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Miatas?

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If you drive a muscle car, you're probably predisposed to driving aggressively. Not true of everyone, of course, but it seems to defeat the purpose to drive defensively.

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Yeah, some BMWs but most are not.

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Dude, I’ve been in the car with you driving…

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I was going to say, someone is biased.

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NOT! - but there are a lot of BMWs out there - They vary quite a bit.

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The Beamers or the drivers?

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Eeee.. some of are very happy to use the HP, and other skills.

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A person who the media claims is hot but you don't agree

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Timothee Chalamet

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Chrissy Teigen

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She is not claimed to be hot any longer, but SJP always kind of creeped me out. Not sure why!

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eh, if they want to claim that "X" is hot, that's fine, but that doesn't necessarily mean I want sex with her.

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A great regular season team that lost early in the playoffs

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I can't believe no one has mentioned the Mavs in 2007 losing as a first seed to the eighth seeded Warriors led by Baron Davis.

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2006 San Diego Chargers

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08-09 Sharks. President trophy winners, knocked out in the first round by the Ducks.

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NFL Draft

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Daniel Scott projected from 3rd to 6th round pick.

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He’s going to be such a solid pro.

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Now the prognosticators are saying he's a centerfielder type who also will be good in run support. So his stock is rising.

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His coverage ability and hands are also strengths.

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CJ Stroud's draft stock may have been hurt because he might be dumb

https://www.nfl.com/news/top-qb-prospect-c-j-stroud-on-reports-on-s2-scores-i-m-a-football-player-i-m-not

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Match

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Old joke my grampa used tell if someone asked for a match to light a cigarette: You want a match pal? How about my ass and your face, that seems like a match to me.

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Peacock

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OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY

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Woman who accused Emmitt Till of whistling at her has died. A book indicated she lied to the FBI, but the DOJ didn't have enough evidence to prosecute her

https://abcnews.go.com/US/carolyn-bryant-donham-accusations-led-murder-emmett-till/story?id=98907473

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I'm on the fence re; DiFi, but Khanna is turning out to be kind of a tool. This time he blamed the vote on her but failed to mention that Joe Manchin was the only democrat to side with the republicans, giving them the win.

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says guy posting on the DBD during work hours

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You do you, man!

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Trump loses attempt to block Pence from testifying. The only thing stopping a Pence testimony are if Trump appeals again or if Mother says he's not allowed to.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/26/politics/trump-loses-appeal-pence-testimony/index.html

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Why bother? Really, his candidacy will be in tatters before it even launches. Even if E. Jean Carroll wins her case.

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I'm worried about him. The news cycle attention span of the U.S. populace is about 2 days. If Trump were to medically or otherwise fail to gain the nomination, DeSantis would (of course) swing back to the center for the general election, and some independents might forget what an extremist toady he is & start to prefer the guy.

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Lot of media on Biden’s age but T is old AF. It’s not out of realm of possibility for him to have a negative health event that opens field…

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Which would be fine with me. In such a case, I doubt there's anyone on the GOP side who unifies the party. Besides, the House GOP seems intent on wrecking the economy by refusing to pass a clean debt limit bill.

I think the Biden Administration should prepare itself to test Section 4 of the 14th Amendment. You know, the section that reads (in its first sentence) -

The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.

It's black letter law - the debt limit is unconstitutional.

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don't threaten me with a good time

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Disney gets a lucky draw on judges in its case vs. DeSantis

https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1651260070590574593

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DBD AV CLUB

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Well only "A" - I own a lot of albums, and lately in the evening, I've been listening to one of the 700 or so that I haven't listened to in a long time. Sometimes they are good, sometimes not so good, occasionally interesting but a bit weird.

So I put on Tom Petty's "Heartbreakers" - and listening to it, I couldn't believe I actually bought it for myself - Jesus, so country, not horrible, but not so good. Did I buy it for the wife? THEN I got to the last song on the second side - "American Girl" - yeah, and I knew then why I bought it.

Didn't do this back in the day much, should have got a 45.

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i have about 250 CDs still that i enjoy listening to still, compared to streaming "anything in the world." there is something nice about not getting to pick the some that comes next.

picking up a turntable this Fri, which would be my first ever. i have a handful of LPs, but will be looking to get more and more in the near future ...

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Speaking of not picking the next song that comes up, on Spotify I accidentally discovered a band I had never heard of, Mekong Delta - running into their 1997 thrash metal, guitar-dense rendering of Pictures at an Exhibition (with one or two humorous interpretations thrown in). Pretty fun stuff if you're into that sort of thing.

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PRO

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Rodgers has a bad cell service at home so he can't take calls. Hopefully service at his new home in NY metro area will be reliable.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron-rodgers-reveals-why-he-ignored-the-packers-phone-calls-this-offseason-before-being-traded-to-the-jets/

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Rodgers had the Jets push his 58.3 option bonus to next year fully guaranteed, so his salary this year is 1.165 M. This allows them to stay under the cap and get some players.

Next year, his salary is $47 million option bonus, plus $1.21 million in minimum salary, plus the $58.3 million bonus from this year, to a total of 107.55 M.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/36302941/source-aaron-rodgers-contract-restructure-helps-jets-cap

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He should opt to receive all the bonus after he retires so that they can sign more players while he is active and then the team can suck after he retires.

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A’s fall to Angels 11-3

https://www.athleticsnation.com/2023/4/26/23699953/as-fall-to-angels-9-3

The A’s dropped the third game of the 4-game series in Los Angeles, falling to the Angels

It didn’t take long for the scoring to start. Esteury Ruiz led off the game with a single, stole second base and advanced to third on a bad throw. Brent Rooker brought him in with a groundball chopper, staking the rookie starter to an early lead.

It was Luis Medina time. The rookie right hander took the mound and had a 3 up, 3 down bottom of the first, even striking out Mike Trout for his first career K.

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Giants 7, Paul Goldschmidt 2

https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2023/4/26/23700100/giants-cardinals-recap-lamonte-wade-jr-blake-sabol

There are a few players who have ownage on the San Francisco Giants. There’s nothing the Giants can do against these players except hope that they can make up for it in other areas of the game.

The St. Louis Cardinals have some world-renowned Giants Killers. If you look at all the home runs hit against the Giants since Oracle Park opened in 2000, no one has more than Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado. Second on the list? Cardinals first baseman Paul Goldschmidt. 111th on the list, tied with long-lasting sluggers like Yadier Molina, Craig Biggio, and Christian Yelich? Paul Goldschmidt in his 28 career at-bats against Tim Lincecum.

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Dodgers fall flat, Pirates run away with this one

https://www.truebluela.com/2023/4/26/23700021/dodgers-bullpen-pirates-stolen-bases-tony-gonsolin-return

After a thrilling win on the series opener, the Dodgers came out flat in the second game against the Pirates, and dropped Tony Gonsolin’s season debut 8-1, as five-plus innings proved too taxing a task for a bullpen that got pushed the previous night.

Contreras holds Dodgers hitless through five

Throughout the entire game, the one constant about the Dodgers offense was that it looked non-threatening. It wasn’t until the top of the sixth inning, that the Dodgers got their first hit off Pirates’ starter Roansy Contreras.

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City of Arlington & a restaurant owner have come to blows

https://twitter.com/Juan_EVelazquez/status/1650663439767945216

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Classic 1st Amendment case.

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Both Sebastian Aho were in the box at the same time

https://twitter.com/Sportsnet/status/1651038492648931328/photo/1

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Knicks knock out the Cavs 106-95

https://www.espn.com/nba/recap/_/gameId/401541249

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Lakers lose 116-99 in Memphis

https://www.espn.com/nba/recap/_/gameId/401541231

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Bucks knocked out by Heat 128-126 in OT. Giannis says exit "not a failure". The entire state of Wisconsin would beg to differ.

https://www.espn.com/nba/recap/_/gameId/401541240

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IMO the story here is not so much the Bucks’ flop, but really Jimmy Buckets! Dude! DUDE! He was absolutely unstoppable in this game and the prior one, especially in crunch time. Was amazing. He was a man among boys … on a court that included Giannis! He is an amazing playoff player, and Spo is an amazing playoff coach. Hats off to both of those guys for this 4-1 masterpiece they put together. Absolutely a joy to watch. That last play in regulation was wild!

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I saw his answer to the question and I liked his response. Trying to keep his emotions from verbally attacking the reporter.

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Timberwolf Anthony Edwards faces third-degree assault for this incident with a June 9th court date

https://twitter.com/TheNBACentral/status/1651369360164888576

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/36298813/wolves-anthony-edwards-cited-assault-game-5-loss

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[ESPN] Commanders won't pick up the fifth year option on Chase Young and his damaged knee

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/36296254/sources-commanders-decline-chase-young-2024-option

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Warriors [checks notes] win on the road. The 123-116 victory over the Kings gives the Dubs a 3-2 lead.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/36301664/warriors-get-needed-road-win-take-3-2-lead-kings

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What do you call it when you "sweep" (win four in a row), but only after losing the first one or two games?

(Not trying to get ahead of ourselves here!)

A Delayed Sweep? A Double Delayed Sweep (if losing the first two games)?

I suspect that it doesn't happen often. Especially after being down 2-to-0.

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Reverse sweep? I've heard people using that.

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that was a close one. the Warriors played w/ poise down the the stretch on the road. that was the most surprising thing given what we have seen this season.

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Like I said, the Warriors are the most dangerous team in the playoffs. The Lakers seem to be vying for the same descriptor, though. If it turns out that conference semifinals includes Lakers v. Warriors, it should be epic.

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You know how billionaires stay rich? It doesn't hurt when the Tennessee and Nashville are funding half of your $2.1b new stadium.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/36294295/titans-get-760m-city-bonds-part-record-stadium-funding

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A St. Louis Blues record that has stood for 30 years

https://twitter.com/STLBlueshistory/status/1650837057445703680

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Catch them all... or at least 3 per inning. Yokohama Baystars will wear Pikachu helmets and hats for a 3 game series.

https://otakuusamagazine.com/japanese-baseball-team-to-wear-pikachu-helmets/

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ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE

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Well, he did get it back. So there's that.

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CU down to 11 players who were on scholarship with the Buffs last season. Only two are expected starters. The Buffs will be a whole new team. Teams that build this fast can also blow up just as fast.

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Seems like Prime was keen on cleaning house.

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