I have a 100+ year old singer I sometimes still use. The old machines are very sturdy and can punch through leather and canvas. It was my great grandmothers, then aunts, now mine.

A game similar to links awakening but maybe a little darker in story tone. I’ve had parts of a story for it for years.

I live in the Midwest and there are busy Indian restaurants everywhere. The twin cities and Chicago both have some of the more diverse food scenes per capita in the country.

Broccoli, grapefruit, swiss chard

It sounds like some of the people around you are very rude. No one in my circle would care one bit if you ate something and stopped eating because you didn’t like it. I’m sorry you have people around you that do this.

This, mostly what I buy are things that save me from needing to buy things. Tools, server hardware, looking for a food dehydrator for my garden, etc. I can’t stand giving any money to a corp that backed fascism so I avoid them at all costs.

If you really want to startle them awake:

Wannabe - Spice Girls has an abrupt start. Someone woke me up that way when I was young and I hated it.

Fair enough, complaining about reposts is still incredibly silly.

To believe that reposts are a problem you have to believe that everyone has been online at the exact same time as you and seen the things you’ve seen. I know you will find this incomprehensible, but this is my first time seeing this comic.

English is one of 2 official languages there and Christianity is the primary religion.

My research in school was exactly this, I set out to prove people on social media lacked social connection irl. What I found out was the opposite, the more people were trying to connect online directly correlated to connecting more offline. Some people just seem to crave those connections anywhere they can get it.

I don’t disagree with anything you’re saying.

Here’s the thing that I think puts LeBron in tier 1 status, the 2016 Cavs pulled off the single hardest thing anyone has ever done in the history of the NBA. Come back from down 3-1 against a historically great Warriors team. MJ never did that. Kareem never did that. Even the greatest winner of all time Bill Russell.

But I will respond to this. Jordan didn’t need to come back 3-1 in the finals because he was never in that position in the finals. Russell come back down 3-1 against Wilt Chamberlain earlier in the playoffs, the first time it was ever done. Kareem only faced that situation when he was past his prime. Still damn impressive when lebron did it and I remember at the time thinking it was career defining. Lebron was definitely the most complete player in physicality and skillset, but he was the master of none.

The thing that always impressed me about Jordan and Curry was the sheer number of times they just completely took over a game and looked like an unstoppable force of nature. Too many times to count.

You probably know way more basketball history than me so i may be risking ridicule by challenging a few things.

Explanation: Lebron’s goat status is slightly over stated in a media desperation to keep the NBA hyped, IMO. Curry beat Lebron in 15 of their 22 games head to head in the finals. Lebron failed in championships way more often than not. Lebron never had that killer mentality of a tier 1. Opting to cry to refs and make any excuse for his failures. He still deserves top of tier 2, but that’s all. Also Sam Jones and Scotty pippin were extremely good players overshadowed by the greats on their teams, they belong somwhere on this list. Curry is always slightly underrated. He is undoubtedly the greatest shooter of all time, and became a good defender with excellent ball awareness after weak defense early in his career (which, IMO, plagued perception of him long after his defense was solid).

Flame my choices, I played ball, but I’m no historian.

Tier 1 - Jordan, Kareem, Russell

Tier 2 - Lebron, Wilt, Curry, Magic, Bird, Shaq, Kobe

Tier 3 - Sam Jones …

Tier 4 - … Pippen

Honestly not enough context here to answer. Are they a former close friend, distant aquintence, former love interest? Do you have a pattern of long period of time with no catch up? A lot of thing in relationships are contextual based on set expectations.

In the past 3 years my father has been billed millions of dollars in healthcare. If he had a health savings instead of insurance, he would simply be dead now. The better option is public single payer healthcare. Insurance sucks, but health savings is simply worse. Pooled risk spreads out costs. If the government pools the risk then they eliminate the needs for constant financial profit growth at the expense of the insured.

I don’t like purposeless exercise. So all my exercise has a purpose. I garden, do yard work, bike to work, paddle for pleasure. Life doest have to be suffering, just need to find what motivates you.

And you become part of what makes it sick if you don’t have they tools to develop a deeper self awareness. I was profoundly skeptical of therapy for a long time, and also thought myself very self aware. But with a good therapist you can uncover enormous blind spots and generally improve how you treat yourself an others. Society is built by those within it.

I mean for some it can help them accept and process reality a little better.

No place I have ever worked has had a version of excel with xlookup, so I can’t really comment on it. Im not on 365 or a newer desktop version. We are on Office 2019, as I suspect many offices still are.

Ahh thanks, didnt notice. Not a word I use enough to notice the difference, pallette/palate. I also have a phoneme disorder that makes recognizing the difference difficult.