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OK is overrun with weed stores, it's offputting. this is also a medical only state. I cannot imagine what it'll be like in ohio unless there is some heavy regulation on distribution of weed.

i used hulu up until about 6 years ago. as much as i like YTTV, the hulu interface i thought was better at the time. i've been on YTTV so long that i'd probably hate hulu if i switched back. only dealbreaker for me would be if i wanted sunday ticket (i do) or not outside of that, the only channel i miss from hulu is History which is not available on YTTV. 

posted by BR1986FB

Yeah, well the Dolphins aren't too shabby either. That is the one offense I wouldn't want the Browns to have to face in the playoffs. Will be interested to see how their game goes against Baltimore (obviously rooting for the Fins).

from experience, the Ravens will stomp the fins. doesn't seem to matter who the players or the coaches are, with 1 or 2 exceptions in my memory (last year's shootout being 1) the ravens always seem to crush miami. i think back to a 60-7 game (or something like that) with brian flores. and some other utter beatdowns in the early 2010's. 

Miami's kryptonite is teams that pressure the QB up the middle. so the Eagles, Jets, Bills, Chiefs, and Commanders will give them trouble. If Miami can get a run game going against those teams and keep it where they have to be honest up the middle, maybe then  they can run away from those teams. but time will tell, 

Also, miami needs phillips and ramsey back ASAP. they are so susceptible to passes it's crazy. they need to score 45 points against teams with competent offenses otherwise they'll lose with this defense as it's currently constructed.

posted by BR1986FB

Sounds like a ton of optimism that Aaron Rodgers will be able to return before the end of the season. With that injury he'd be a medical miracle.

10000% chance he is making semi weekly trips to TJ for stem cells like the rest of Rogan's rich buddies. if it works this effectively i'd like to think we see some more mainstream acceptance in the US, but i'm not hopeful any of the zealots would ever budge on that. 

everything the Jets are doing right now is impressive. 

anybody ever use the Steam Deck? i was on a jet a few days ago, and a guy broke one out and started playing some badass looking game on it.

i like it. if i could get broughton's brand anywhere outside of marietta, i'd probably have it all the time. i don't really like many other brands. as weird as that sounds.

the 62-7 dolphins beat down to the jags stands out. Marino's last game and i think they had like 7 turnovers including 1 pick six and 1 fumble. jay fielder came in and looked like Joe Namath against that team in the second half.

41-14 to florida is another that i get serious anxiety thinking about.

i'm torn between my love for rodgers, my hate for the jets, over confidence of new yorkers, and never wanting to see anyone get hurt like that. overall it sucks, but i think a-rod did enough confidence building with wilson that he might end up figuring it out. if he's in the building for this season while he rehabs, it'll really solidify if wilson is ever going to be a guy or not.

that said. the line on that team is god awful, and since they won't get the 1st rounder from the packers next year you almost think they will have to go big in free agency to fix it.

posted by gut

Well, so much for the "coup" attempt.  Seems slightly more compassionate than the usual header off a balcony.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/23/wagner-mercenary-boss-yevgeny-prigozhin-killed-in-plane-crash.html

his wife was saying he's not on that plane. but nothing from these godless heathens in the balkans is ever what it seems.

i did it because back in june when they had it on sale. full disclosure last time i bought it, the dolphins finished 1-15.

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posted by Heretic

I mean, he did say BET THE OPPOSITE!

if you think i'm going to go through each teams schedule and pick each game you're crazy, i'm just telling you where i feel like they are. i know the math isn't going to add up. but i feel like there are like 5 really awful teams, 3 really clearly good teams and the rest of them right now are average. i was basically trying to give like my over/under for wins. most teams if i'm wrong i think i'm wrong on the low side of wins. like the browns roster should win like 12 games, but i don't like there coach. the steelers, titans and patriots have amazing coaches and bad rosters. miami could win 13 games if tua is healthy AND the defense is dramatically better than it was last year. i don't think both will happen so they'll languish as an average team that will be in QB limbo at draft time for the 18th time since marino retired.

My track record here is impeccable. Bet the opposite of what I say.

AFC East:

Bills - 10-7 still the cream of this crop. Should make a run in the playoffs, but injuries are going to tell the story here as always. 

Jets - 9-8 win a tiebreaker, struggle out of the gate then get it rolling once Hall comes back and they get a run game to take the edge off of pass rushers barreling through the Oline. Defense is going to be elite

Dolphins - 9-8 defense is going to be the big variable here. the offense, if tua is healthy, we know what it looks like. the defense under fangio will be better, but largely we are running with the same horses as last year

Patriots - 7-10 more of a testament to their division than anything. better team than this record

AFC North:

Bengals - 12-5 win the division, lose in the divisional round. They'll miss Perine more than people know and Bates more than people think

Browns - 9-8 depth chart is compelling, but i am not a believer in stefanski to get it done

Ravens - 9-8 Lamar still needs help with a running attack defense is expensive, but i don't think they're good

Steelers - 8-9 holes everywhere, past their prime players eating up cap space. pickett isn't what they are trying to make us think he is.

AFC South:

Jaguars - 11-6 they run away with a bad division

Texans - 4-13 rookie QB on a bad team with a decent defense

Colts - 3-14 rookie QB on a bad team with a bad defense

Titans - 3-14 clearly they plan on beginning the rebuild after this year

AFC West:

Chiefs - 13-4 - just way better than the rest of us, i think they get better this year

Broncos - 10-7 really no clue how this will go. payton is a winner, but russell could truly be as bad as he looked last year

Chargers - 6-11  Defense is injury prone everywhere, still don't have a legit WR threat and it'll show

Raiders - 3-14 lost too much of the offense to be good 

NFC East:

Eagles - 13-4 good team, got better but also older at key positions

Giants - 8-9 not a great team, but well coached

Cowboys - 8-9 too much turmoil internally

Commanders - 5-12 Bad team, i think bienemy gets exposed as a bad coach

NFC North:

Lions - 11-6  finally the team to beat. not a great team but good in a bad division

Vikings - 10-7 good team, they are going to miss the running game and pass catching of DC,. they are crazy for letting their DLine go, but overall a good team

Packers - 3-14 new QB ain't going to cover up for how bad of a coach they have

Bears - 2-15 bad team didn't do enough to help the QB

NFC South:

Buccaneers - 9-8 don't really trust the coach, but roster isn't bad. they have to get baker or trask to really perform

Panthers - 7-10 again, if the coach wasn't pederson, i'd really like this team i think they are really good but pederson got steamrolled in indianapolis.

Saints - 7-10 don't trust the qb, they got older everywhere and bringing back headcases like thomas aren't going to improve things

Falcons - 4-13 - these guys need a QB and more of a direction on defense

NFC West:

49er's: 12-5 great team, well built, all depends on purdy's arm.

Seahawks: 9-8 good team, need a QB but won't get one without a huge trade in the draft. coach is great

Rams: 5-12 nothing compelling about this team other than the coach, QB (who's on the downslope and could be seriously injured) and Donald who doesn't act tlike he's committed to the game

Cardinals: 1-16 clearly the worst team in the league, the blow up and rebuild is coming but might be after this owners is shamed out of the league

posted by jmog

It was after the last Bush. Bill Clinton and the 2 Bush's were ideologically different, but not THAT different. 

At the start of his first campaign Obama/Biden weren't that different than Rs as well. But over that 8 years and the 6/7 years since good Lord its like "lets see which side can further away from center next". 

Currently the Ds are winning that "battle" but the Rs, many of them anyway, are not that far behind.

Look at Robert F Kennedy, Ramaswamy, Tulsi Gabbard, etc. All 3 rather centrist, yet all 3 have (had in 2020 in Tulsi's case) no shot in the primaries because of the whackadoos voting in the primaries.

If I had to rank right now in order of who I would vote for (current candidates) in the general they would go...

1. Ramaswamy

2. Haley/Scott/Kennedy (2 Rs, 1 D all fairly close for me on how 'normal' they are).

3. DeSantis

Then WAY down the road here...

4. Trump (would take ANY R over him, but I am ignoring the other almost 10 candidates as they have no shot)

Then WAY down the road more.....

5. Biden (mainly because the man should be in a nursing home not  the WH).

SImilar thoughts here. I would vote put Tim Scott at 2, Kennedy at 3, then a mile before Nikki Haley, another mile to Doug Burgum,10 miles to Trump, 50 miles to Cornel West, 100 miles to Desantis and Williamson, then the rest on another planet.

posted by sportchampps

This actually wasn’t bad but could have been and definitely made my wife think I died. 

I was having really bad panic attacks. Went to the hospital twice in two days. The panic attacks elevated my blood pressure so they gave me blood pressure medicine and a pill to take water off of me. Well I didn’t really need these it was the panic attack causing the high blood pressure. So I wake up that night with a Charlie horse in each leg. I stand up really fast to straighten my legs out and get the cramps out. Well my blood pressure was so low that when I stood up so fast I passed out. I luckily first fell into a dresser before falling into the wall head first. My head put in big hole in the wall. I did stand up again really fast to assure my wife I was fine and laid on the bed recovering. Funny thing is it was the most normal I felt for like a month because the pain took my anxiety away for a little bit. I went about a month without working because the attacks were so bad. Since then I’ve had minor attacks  that last a few minutes but nothing like that month.

Hope all goes well with the anxiety. Small dose of meds can take the edge off.

This actually wasn’t bad but could have been and definitely made my wife think I died. 

I was having really bad panic attacks. Went to the hospital twice in two days. The panic attacks elevated my blood pressure so they gave me blood pressure medicine and a pill to take water off of me. Well I didn’t really need these it was the panic attack causing the high blood pressure. So I wake up that night with a Charlie horse in each leg. I stand up really fast to straighten my legs out and get the cramps out. Well my blood pressure was so low that when I stood up so fast I passed out. I luckily first fell into a dresser before falling into the wall head first. My head put in big hole in the wall. I did stand up again really fast to assure my wife I was fine and laid on the bed recovering. Funny thing is it was the most normal I felt for like a month because the pain took my anxiety away for a little bit. I went about a month without working because the attacks were so bad. Since then I’ve had minor attacks  that last a few minutes but nothing like that month.

We had autonomous desks at my old job. would recommend. The one we had had like 3 presets, we were able to set one of them ourselves. The other 2 were set by the in house ergonomics coaches who would sit and watch you work for 2 hours once a year. This is the monitor that I use for my WFH setup and I love it (I have 2 of them for whatever that's worth).