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tokamak

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  1. Yeah Quan Cosby against 2A competition was unfair. That's a good one. IIRC his brother was a damn good 2A player, too, and the two of them basically never left the field.
  2. How the fuck are there people who haven't figured out - after 10 fucking years of this - that the only motivation for anything, ever, is "benefits Donald J. Trump personally"???
  3. WaPo is Bezos's mouthpiece now. The price of all the garbage he sells on his website just went way up. Maybe he needs to buy a few more reality TV shows from Melania for eleventy billion dollars. This, ultimately, will be the great tragedy of the 2nd Trump presidency. Not just the global US-led economic order, but there are all sorts of institutions both inside the country and internationally that took an incredible amount of effort, commitment, and time to build up. Take the CDC, for example. The envy of the world. Torn down to a joke within a matter of months, because reasons.
  4. I want to see some hilarious stuff. Two that always stick out to me are Adrian Peterson and Jadeveon Clowney. AD's has bunch of plays where it's obvious that no one on the defense wants any part at all of trying to tackle him. Clowney looks like a fully formed NFL DE playing against kids.
  5. 750 what? Sorority girls banged? Cans of Cope consumed? Morgan Wallen songs on the playlist?
  6. CSB alert: this was the kind of place that has a bunch of really top shelf liquors on a little cart that they’d push around and try to sell you. In addition to the Tears, they had the full Clase Azul line, El Tesoro 85 anniversary, Fuenteseca, Gran Patron, a bunch of stuff. My wife and FIL were interested in having a bourbon. Problem is none of us at the table know fuckall about high end bourbon. The waiter goes through the selections and we’re all just staring blankly. Finally he gets to a Michter’s and I recognize the name. Hey, I think that’s good stuff. Y’all should get the Michter’s. Waiter chimes in “great selection, but I should let you know that this one is $300 a pour”. Uhhhh, ok we’re good. Thanks for the heads up bro. That’s what I get for trying to act like I know something.
  7. They just got me for 22% yoy in Harris County. Helluva investment I’m sitting on, I guess.
  8. I absolutely love the "literally every dude on our team looks like an All-American" phase of spring practice.
  9. I have some morbid curiosity about how this is playing out in the real world. I just picture some poor bastard walking around a port with a clipboard like "OK, this container got here yesterday before the afternoon Tweet, so it's at 35%. That one was after the Tweet, so I think it's 105%. This one I think they said is 10%....or was that an extra 10% on top of the old number? Those two were delayed until next week, right? Hold on, let me check Truth Social real quick."
  10. Don't worry we'll be doing this all again in approximately 86 days
  11. Businesses hate this one weird trick
  12. Rereading you, I think we're talking about two separate (albeit related) things. My original point was just that I foresee a pattern of "fatigue" and "reload" developing over time. If Ohio State is breaking the piggy bank to assemble a $30m roster, does it make much sense for Texas NIL to comfortably fund a $20m roster? Being middle class doesn't count for a whole lot, here. That's it. I don't have a whole lot of deep thoughts on ROI or individual motivations.
  13. It's a fair point. I'm not a gazillionaire and I don't spend a lot of time hanging out with gazillionaires so I don't know how they think. But I'd counter that the difference is that skiing or visiting St. Barth's or getting buildings named after you are not competitive endeavors. As I'm sure you well know, the comfortable rarely ever win the prize in a competitive activity. There's always someone else out there willing to step to the other side of their pain point if you're not. Being someone who's not in the know, I'd be thrilled if Texas's cruise control can match up to the rest of the top 15's all-out dash. I have to say I'd be mildly surprised if that's the case, though.
  14. AFAIK, Bobby is still beating the drum that Turntine is the #1 guy and that he'll be a Horn in the end. Literally everyone else seems to have started hedging on both ends of that statement. Will be interesting to see how it shakes out.
  15. I know it's been discussed on Surly some in regards to football, but my guess is still that when the dust settles the model will be big programs gearing up for a championship window and then having a few relatively leaner years to reset and recharge. Essentially like how the smart NFL teams manage the salary cap. Given the amounts involved and the return on investment (none, except school pride and fun), it feels like a really hard sell for any NIL apparatus except Uncle Phil to maintain a top level output year after year forever.
  16. I know that we can play this game over and over and over again, but can you imagine how hysterical Fox News would be if the Biden administration had announced that the US Dollar being the world's reserve currency was a bad thing and they were going to change that?
  17. S&P has drifted back down to damn near even.
  18. Honestly I think this all blows over relatively quickly. Trump's Q&A with Bibi yesterday and that Truth(?) posted above are your clues. Trump is just looking for political wins off this. All these other countries aren't dumb, they know that he is just looking to be appeased. They'll start lining up to announce bold pledges to eliminate their trade imbalance with the US and big investments that were either going to happen anyway or are purely imaginary. It's just like the Softbank/AI/etc stuff but with countries instead of corporations. That way Trump can take a bunch of victory laps on social media and announce that he's dropping the tariffs on country X because he won big beautiful concessions from them. Rinse and repeat, line starts to the left. Sorry in advance for hurting anyone's fifis by mentioning Trump. I just don't see how the current market can be discussed without doing it.
  19. The battery in my 13 Mini is garbage at this point. I basically have to charge constantly. Even though it's an old phone I'm thinking about having the battery replaced because I like the small size and Apple's probably not ever gonna make one this small again.
  20. Yeah that's a weird process. What happens if two teams want to list the same guy on their "discovery list"? Also, how does Miami apparently have unlimited money?
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