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I'm going to have to become the meme I guess. Tried all kinds of exercises, all kinds of weight (even bodyweight), focused on my breathing, all of it. Doesn't matter. If/when I do lower body, it manifests in wicked urinary symptoms. Burning in bladder, frequent and low volume of urination, inability to hold as long. Waking up at night frequently to pee. And I can feel a constant low grade pain/tightness in the PF area.

Walking and light jogging doesn't seem to cause any issues, so going to keep that up and hope that is enough to keep my lower body in decent shape. Upper body strength training will continue, doesn't seem to bother me at all.

First of all, we still have some athletes that can't read. Must have been much more common in the 70s.

Rocky is super hot/famous at the time, the agent signed him to do commercials for a reason. And he doesn't get paid if Rocky doesn't get paid. They would have just worked with him to memorize just a couple of lines or whatever, but they would have made the commercials work out.

Howard was probably not the most talented attorney, but he was a great salesman and excellent at client relations.

Kim was the prototypical transactional attorney. Killer attention to detail.

And Jimmy was going to be a masterful litigator.

HWM had the makings of being one of the top law firms in all of the Southwest, not just New Mexico. Multiple offices.

Throughout the show Hector is really the only one that continues to distrust the chicken man while Bosa and Eladio seem more interested in the fact that he's making $$$ for them. Obviously in hindsight Hector was the only one that was right about Gus and his motivations.

Was this based on logic/instinct or was it just purely a matter of him hating Gus because of the $$$ he was making and the increased support he was getting from Eladio, so he's looking for reasons why Gus may be moving against them and he just happened to be right in this case.

To me it always seemed the former, specifically because of the Salamancas' "sangre por sangre" creed. Seems like Hector is the only one who realized fundamentally Gus would never let go of the fact that they killed Max right in front of him. Because that's how Hector lived his own life.

Rewatching after rewatching BB. Obviously he looks much older than he did as Saul in BB, it's 13 years after he was first cast. From a chronological standpoint it can seem strange.

But he looks aged and weathered in a way that fits the character's narrative arc imo. We've seen him basically go through a lifetime of events and experiences and it kinda all crystallizes in that moment, so him looking a bit older and "wiser" works really well.

Was planning a last minute trip and tomorrow is weirdly crazy. Bellagio, Cosmo, Venetian, Resorts World all sold out, won't let me check in tomorrow at all. Other hotels crazy expensive. Seems really odd for midweek in August.

Weird thing is it seems to be just Wednesday as things seem to normalize on Thursday and I can book all the above hotels.

There is a convention 26-29th at the LVCC but it's only 10,000 and again if that's the reason I'd have thought the rest of the week should be booked up, not just tomorrow.

Am I totally tripping? I just remember there being a lot of theories with scientists consistently saying we don't really know. I remember this being a huge point of debate amongst us kids when the topic came up.

Sometime since then (don't know exactly when) I realized it's just become settled it was a massive meteor strike? I remember this being one of the theories, but just one of them. Now it just seems established fact?

There were already some earlier mentions of the movie Heat, so that specific scene had to take inspiration for it, right?

Mike sees the law coming, looks at Kaylee on the swing, but is immediately willing to escape and walk out on his family.

Similar to how De Niro was immediately willing to walk out on his love interest once he spotted the heat around the corner (as he said he would).

It's in the convo for greatest ending to a TV show and send-off to a character ever. I personally can't think of anything better.

But it also sets up an insane beginning of a story - El Camino. It's not the absolute beginning scene of the movie, but Jesse driving out of there full speed but then realizing his escape has only just begun is one hell of a way to kick things off.

So for most of the show, when these 2 would interact Hank is portrayed as the more "dominant" person. He's shorter yea, but has a bigger/strong physical presence. He's loud, can be obnoxious, and just kinda trying to dominate the conversation. Even when he was laid out after being shot, they don't deviate too much from this dynamic.

The garage is the first time Hank meets Heisenberg, and I didn't really pay attention to the terrific way it's shot until this recent rewatch. There's a lot of angles where you see Hank but it's over Walt's shoulder, and kinda shot downwards so they really emphasize the height difference between the two. The dynamic has been totally flipped, it's Walt/Heisenberg that looks to be the more dominant one, even physically. And he's controlling the convo.

Even when Hank roughs him up a bit, Walt stays in control and that's when you see that look of confusion/fear in Hank's face.

So one thing I've always had a hard time believing is the time span of this show. From when Walt decides to start cooking to when it unravels it's basically just 1 year. And then he's basically in hiding for another and then comes back to wrap things up. 2 total years, but like 95% of the show/action is just over 1 year.

During the show you hear the characters bring up events that feel like they should have happened months ago and it's like "oh yea, that thing last week".

You can argue Walt was always on the clock due to his cancer, but I think you could have totally stretched out the first year events into 2, maybe even 3 years and it would still have been fine?

Am I missing something or is there only one bathroom and it's the one attached to the master bedroom?

Seems unlikely but Hank was doing the doo doo there when he found out you know what, and it would be extremely rude (even for a family member) to stroll into the master bath if there was another bath outside. Esp for a doo doo.

Also during the time Walt was kicked out but came back to the house Skylar wouldn't let him use the bathroom so he peed in the kitchen sink. And otherwise kept asking permission to use the bathroom, which I thought was a weird thing to be doing if there was another bathroom available.

If indeed there is only 1 bathroom and it's the master, I've never seen that kind of layout before in a house of that size/age.

Growing up and into my 20s I feel like was the golden age of comedies. When I was a kid we had slapstick stuff like Airplane, Naked Gun, Police Academy, etc. And then basically anything Eddie Murphy. Into the 2000s and 2010s there was the frat pack and Judd Apatow type stuff.

Tropic Thunder came out almost 20 years ago and I don't think any movie has made me laugh as much then or since.

I'm not the type that just reflexively says everything was better in the past or whatever, but I feel like this definitely applies to comedy?

With my Z5ii, I think these 2 basically being pancake lenses would be awesome for travel. The 26-28 / 40 split is prob my fav and I can shoot 99% of what I normally shoot with these.

I feel like these 2 give me the best combo of portability, IQ, and fun factor (specifically the Voigt). I can kinda run and gun with the 26mm but slow down and really focus on photography with the Voigt.

Having said that, I think this is the costliest option for a pairing of this sort. There's many permutations I can go for that would be cheaper. Like Nikon's own 28mm and/or 40mm, Viltrox, TT Artisan options. I think the Voigt is very unique, but maybe swapping in the Vitrox 26mm EVO or the Nikon 28mm is the smarter move?

Just want to get the community's thoughts on this potential pairing.

Still trying to figure this out in the broad scheme of things. The man is obviously not a coward, he stood his ground in at least 3 shoot outs. He loved the job. And to top it off he seemed pretty unfazed by scenes of extreme violence and gore. He was basically laughing and taking pics of when Tuco's guy lost his arms.

But he sees Danny Trejo's head on a turtle and he needs to puke, so he was freaking out even before the IED went off.

And knowing all this happened Gomey still took the El Paso job like it was just a regular Tuesday while Hank couldn't bring himself to go back.

So Gus created and ran his entire meth empire to get the funds to eventually topple the cartel and exact revenge. He succeeds thoroughly. And yet he spares Walt because Jesse threatens not to cook for him if Walt is killed.

The urgency to make the type of money he was making and/or to maintain the purity of the product has been reduced because the cartel is gone. Why not just call Jesse's bluff and kill Walt considering what a huge liability he is?

Gus is a very strong guy and can play 4d chess as well. He knows Jesse can be easily manipulated which means keeping Walt alive is dangerous but also Gus himself could have used this in his favor and just made up some story as to why Walt had to be eliminated, basically that Walt was conjuring up some scheme to kill all of them or whatever. Jesse prob would have believed it, moved on, and continued to cook for Gus. But even if he doesn't, well Gus can just kill him too to tie up loose ends and I'm sure he could have found other cooks.

Made for great story/drama. But obviously the right move was just writing a check in his name directly to the IRS.

Really hit me on this rewatch, maybe because it's my first rewatch after finishing BCS. She's what, around 40 years old? Tragically widowed due to the actions of her BIL. Prob never going to be able to have a normal (if any) relationship with her only sibling or her nephew/niece due to said BIL. And to top it off no children. Basically she's lost her entire family.

She'd be like mid 50s now, wonder what she'd be doing.

Specifically when he let Jane die.

I am rewatching the Fly ep and even Jesse echoes what Walt told him in S2, that giving a pair of junkies all that money would have meant they'd be dead within a week.

Something I've been seeing more lately is the idea that the US gov't would tolerate or even welcome prolonged higher levels of inflation to essentially inflate the debt away. I understand the concept in theory, but not sure how it would be successful in practice.

If inflation stays high for long, the bond market would demand higher yields. So repayment costs for gov't would just keep going up. Also, a lot of gov't spending is explicitly or implicitly tied to inflation. Social security is pegged to CPI. Healthcare costs would rise so Medicare/Medicaid expenditures would have to as well. Even things like defense spending would have to rise with inflation.

So it seems like as long as the gov't is running deficits, inflating away the debt would just make the problem worse, but want to know what experts say about this.