Jump to content

berlinerbaer

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    808
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by berlinerbaer

  1. So much this. Disturbing that some of you would rather move to Belize or somewhere else to be utterly surrounded by poverty. If you look white, are older, male, and in the top 10% economically, America is and always will be structurally built to support you regardless of the status of democracy or how hot it is. Big oceans on both sides to keep the meanies out. A still-growing population that can support the elderly. Think about it. Europe may seem nice, but they are dependent on the outside for energy (Russia and ME), protection (US), and food. When there are global shocks, they always feel it more. I would rather have internal challenges to deal with than be under the thumb of a foreign power or have to worry about asshole neighbors. Besides, if America goes to shit, all the benefits of being American will go with it. Your dollars won't be worth that much anymore.
  2. Down to the wire in the 28th. Cisneros leads Cuellar by just over one point with 70% in.
  3. I was in Boerne and SA a month ago and everything looked bone dry. I haven't been out of SE Texas much in the last year and it was striking.
  4. I think the economic arguments hold water considering coercion was working out just fine for Putin until his buddy in Kiev got the boot in 2014's uprising. One of the things Yanukovich was doing until then, IIRC, was putting development of the country's O&G infrastructure on ice.
  5. From the outside, it may look like China is distancing itself from Russia and choosing the West. Domestically, their media is parroting Russian propaganda, including the latest round of garbage about bioweapons. I don't know which way they've shifted over the last 3 weeks.
  6. Wasn't there a State Department cable put out by Wikileaks that suggested after psych evaluation that Putin might have Asperger's? That would explain the very high competence in many areas and deficiencies elsewhere. It was the Pentagon, actually.
  7. Or just wait for one to inevitably break down. They didn't even leave room to maneuver. Armor is useless in urban combat anyway.
  8. I agree. There is too much military competence spread around the world to make invasions successful. Only if the focus is narrow, which it certainly wasn't for us in Iraq and Afghanistan. By the looks of it the Russians bit of more than they could chew as well.
  9. Agree, but this is the second time the world has seen effective resistance against a superpower just in the last year.
  10. Not sure where you saw this, but it's plausible this combo was a winner in India as it could be in other developing countries, but not by directly treating Covid. It also would have much less success in this country due to overall greater health. Lots of people in India and elsewhere without proper sanitation have parasitic diseases. Worms cause all sorts of systemic havoc and can inhabit the body long-term by suppressing the immune system. Worms plus any viral illness is a really bad combination. To treat Covid it would make lots of sense to first get rid of the worms. Hence Ivermectin. I could see a broad spectrum antibiotic like azithromycin being useful for similar reasons. Even things like tooth abscesses are comorbidities that should be treated to increase the survival rates of Covid patients. Doctors shouldn't just be throwing around antibiotics, but last spring was an extraordinary circumstance, so why not? Worry about resistant germs later. Not sure about vitamin D but much of the world is chronically deficient so it can't hurt. tl;dr Throw that cocktail at your random developing world resident and watch their survivability skyrocket.
  11. Damn. I'm looking at that miniscule Delta wave from Jul - Nov and think NYC deserves some props. Well done. Comparison attached
  12. Random immunology questions... Can someone explain why people are fretting so much about antibody levels when the B cells responsible for making them last the rest of your life? Is the concern that low initial levels during infection would allow the virus to gain a foothold before antibody levels rebound? Can the virus suppress antibody production?
  13. My first guess would be that they tried to lowball him and he said no, but this is Oregon. Duck fans would flip if they found out the school wanted to go with a B coach to save a few mil a year. More likely is that Oregon wanted some concessions from him, like who to bring on as assistants, who to recruit and how, the exact technique in kissing Phil Knights' ass, etc. Lots of pressure in Eugene, and Wilcox heard Duck fans booing when Cal almost pushed that game back in October into overtime. In the pigs fly department, there are vague suggestions filtering down from the insider boards that Wilcox actually got concessions out of Cal. Not just an extension for himself but some sort of lasting commitment to the program, maybe a relaxing of the admissions requirements now that the team leads the conference in APR and maybe something pertaining the grad school and the portal.
  14. Oregon has chosen to prioritize recruiting over all else, essentially doubling down on the Cristobal strategy. Time will tell if Lanning is a better coach than Cristobal. It's odd because the high water mark at Oregon was with Chip and Helfrich, guys really good at the Xs and Os. It worked because the program basically attracts top talent regardless of who is running things. The OC hire is critical.
  15. An then the naval officer turns back to look at his warship.
  16. Wilcox is sucking shit through a straw at Cal, admittedly a recruiter's nightmare. Chip kicked ass at Oregon, a school that recruits itself. I can't tell who really is the better recruiter but it doesn't matter. If down to those two, Oregon is going to go with what worked before.
  17. In his first year at Cal he took a unit long neglected by Sonny Dykes and made them dominant. The defense is still decent now that he's been gone a couple of years but the change is noticeable. Good hire. Hopefully now you have a HC who won't let the offense go to shit.
  18. Probably not. Maybe we'll see the Garbers brothers duel.
  19. Thanks lil bro. The Rose Bowl has been cruel to us for so long. We'll take what we can get.
  20. Cal is the issue. Cal and the City of Berkeley. The City insisted on testing the entire team after a few players tested positive before Cal played Arizona. That revealed many positive but asymptomatic cases. The University then forced those players into isolation for a period of time, despite some of them subsequently testing negative. I'm not sure if the overreach was team-wide testing, the isolation period, or both.
  21. Stanford's backup QB is shitty huh? I can't throw stones.
×
×
  • Create New...