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  1. Arative

    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Not surprised. Kansas has been trying to lure the Chiefs for years.
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    Home buying thread

    If you can, I would put like a loft area in place that is open to living space below. A two story room sounds nice and all but the extra living space is even nicer. When we were choosing our floor plan, there was an option for a two story great room instead of the loft. We went with the loft...
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    Parent Thread

    We're back from the funeral. He did ok. The church holds 950 and it was packed. We sat around friends and teachers, so I think that helped. I think ultmately, he'll be glad that he went to the funeral. If nothing else, it might start the healing process. As a parent, I wish he didn't have to go...
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    Parent Thread

    We talked to him last night and we all decided that going to the funeral would be the right thing. He's angry and at times we could tell he was close to tears. He kept saying he just wants things to go back to normal. My heart is breaking for him, no one should have to go through something like...
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    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    I got I3 broadband, currently paying $75 a month for 2g u/d
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    Parent Thread

    We know that he wasn't super close with her but we also know that she sat near him a lot last year, not so much this year and he did have a lot of small group instruction with her with the schools learning consultant both last year and this year. I think we're leaning towards having him go to...
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    Parent Thread

    He says he just doesn't want to go. I get it, he's avoiding it and if he can avoid it, then he doesn't have to talk about it or think about it.
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    Parent Thread

    He has stated multiple times that he doesn't want to go. We don't want to force him to go but at the same time we don't want him to be one of the only kids in the class that doesn't go. Eventually these kids will talk about it and we think he'll need that shared connection with the other kids...
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    Parent Thread

    Thanks. We all try to our best. I hate funerals too. Who doesn't? If he does go, this would be the first funeral he has ever attended. He's had great grand parents that passed within the last two years and we never took him to those funerals. Gave him the choice for his great grandfather that...
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    Parent Thread

    Yeah he does do a lot of avoidance, so we're pretty familiar with it. I think a lot of the boys in the class are the same way. From the other parents we talked too, their boys are acting pretty much the same way. My wife and I are debating making him go. Might be good for him to confront and...
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    Parent Thread

    We've reached out to several parents and everyone is still deciding, kind of like us.
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    Parent Thread

    My son made it through the 1st day yesterday. They had counselors there talk too. We had a snow day today. He keeps saying he's fine, him and the boys in the class are all ok. Said all the girls were crying The funeral is Friday and the school has cancelled classes that day. He says he doesn't...
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    Parent Thread

    I hear you I never want to experience something like this.
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    Parent Thread

    My kids seem ok but you never know. I'm betting Monday will be hard for my son with the empty desk in the room. The girl that passed was the oldest of 4 and I just can't imagine the grief they are all going through. I don't think I could bounce back from the death of child.
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    Parent Thread

    My son is 11 and in the 5th grade. We got a call earlier that a girl in his class was killed in a car accident yesterday. He goes to a private school, so only about 50 kids in the grade. My daughter in 2nd grade has a sibling in her grade. We told both of them and they reacted I think fairly...
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    Stargate SG-1

    I love me some stargate so I'll watch this. Hopefully its not trash. I would hope with Martin, Joe and Brad coming back, it will be a good show.
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    Torrents

    I get a lot of old stuff off it the newsgroups I use. Newshosting and newsdirect. You can get good Black Friday deals right now for most newsgroups.
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    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    Only reason I click on this thread anymore to see if he's dead.
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kiss-guitarist-ace-frehley-dead-1235448770/
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    https://people.com/diane-keaton-dead-oscar-winning-actress-dies-at-79-exclusive-8603118
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    Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success

    I use the crew plug in for Kodi for sports and it's always a good quality stream.
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    NAS

    I built my own truenas scale. If you read my previous posts I didn't have any back up for the 4 12 tb Western digital red nas drives that I had my media on. One of them started getting write errors. So I ended up redoing my nas. I upgraded my CPU to an i7 14700k for transcoding with my Plex...
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    There are a number of novellas that are written in the cosmere that are good reads. The sunlit man, yumi and the nightmare painter and tress and the emerald sea. All the of them take place in the future, fairly far after the main story concludes.
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    Wheel of Time

    You would think they would learn something from this but its never their fault, its always our fault for not liking the shit they are trying to shovel down our throats. Maybe one day I'll be able to feed a book into an AI and have it generate a movie.
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    Super Troopers 3

    Clearly I suck the internets
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    Super Troopers 3

    Title: Super Troopers 3 Genre: Action, Comedy Director: Jay Chandrasekhar Cast: Jay Chandrasekhar, Paul Soter, Steve Lemme, Erik Stolhanske, Kevin Heffernan, Brian Cox, Marisa Coughlan, Nat Faxon, Chace Crawford, Andrew Dismukes Plot: The third installment in the Super Troopers...
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    Super Troopers 3

    https://variety.com/2025/film/news/super-troopers-3-broken-lizard-brian-cox-chace-crawford-1236494275/?fbclid=IwdGRleAMUxgNjbGNrAxTFDGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEev_UaNknOqmw7qlzfE_-YbeodxmuD4VDzA0Mt_LvyhMliGHIkrO6A4rsYHg4_aem_jTrO_rbFfpchtu3Re8ZTgg I really liked 1 and 2 was ok I'll give 3 a go
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    Home buying thread

    We built our house in 2013 for $87 a sq ft. House across the street from us just sold last month for $260 a sq ft. Prices are insane. Crash has to come sooner or later.
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    Home buying thread

    When my wife and I built our house, we sent through every room of the build with sheet of options. Ended up adding $80k in upgrades to the base price. You'd be amazed at some of the extras. Want the vent for the stove to vent outside, that's $500. Want soft close drawers, that's $400. Want 5...
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    Rick and Morty

    ‘Rick & Morty’ Lands Spinoff 'President Curtis' At Adult Swim ‘Rick & Morty’ Lands A Presidential Spinoff At Adult Swim I'm at least intrigued but not sure the president can carry a show
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    I think a lot of companies will eventually regret giving agentic AI access to systems. AI seems like it is the wild West and it will be exploited by bad actors. Hacker injects malicious, potentially disk-wiping prompt into Amazon's AI coding assistant with a simple pull request — told 'Your...
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    https://deadline.com/2025/07/julian-mcmahon-dead-1236449999/
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    South Park

    'South Park' Season 27 Premiere Date Pushed; Series Creators React ‘South Park’ Season 27 Premiere Date Pushed By Comedy Central Amid Streaming Deal Uncertainty; Series Creators React Date has been pushed to 7/23
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    https://redshirtsalwaysdie.com/remembering-harris-yulin-one-of-star-trek-s-greatest-stars-1937-2025-01jxgtkk6ak8
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/using-ai-makes-stupid-researchers-135002931.html?guccounter=1
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    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

    Season 5 will be the last https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-5-canceled-1236263532/
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    2025-2026 College Football, Now the Minor Leagues of the NFL.

    Any non revenue sports will be cut or greatly reduced. Rich schools will buy who ever they want now.
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    Wheel of Time

    https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/the-wheel-of-time-canceled-amazon-prime-video-1236408524/ Been cancelled. Maybe if they had made a faithful adaptation it might have lasted
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    Wheel of Time

    I wanted to like this series. Had such high hopes but it sounds like they butchered the story just because. I mean I used to reread the entire series when a new book was coming out just to refresh myself. You think studios would see the success of game of thrones when they were following the...
  40. Arative

    Elderly Parents and Looking Out for Them

    Medicaid has the 5 year claw back. It's basically use all of your assets and be broke in order for Medicaid to pay for everything. Medicare part C might do home health care but that depends on the policy you get. Parts A and B don't pay for home health care.