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But only because of our athleticism. Our team is tactically unintelligent. And we’re not more skilled than the Dutch.

We still have better athletes and that’s showing as the game wears on.

That was a fucking dumbass foul by Lavelle.

The Dutch are good enough to play keep-away for long stretches and then defend the occasional counter. We are not built to defeat a more skilled, possession-oriented team with good athletes.

We play a style that allowed us to dominate when our athletes were far superior to the rest of the world. European teams play a more possession oriented game and, as the skill and athleticism of their player pools improves, our style will be a real weakness.

Just saw a clip. His right eye drifted way off center during the episode.

Could be a crackhead that got hold of the wrong stuff.

How do you say “undefeated” in Ukrainian?

Zambia is a tomato can, but Spain looks fucking lethal. They were among the best teams in Euros last summer and merely lacked that killer instinct in the final third. (Which is why England beat them after getting dominated for 80+ minutes). But they’ve been ruthless snipers so far this tournament. Japan should be a good test for them.

Assuming you’re in Texas, I don’t understand taking the risk to bring home marijuana edibles, which can result in a felony charge, when hemp-derived Delta 9 edibles are freely available here. Is there a noticeable difference in psychotropic effects between marijuana-derived and hemp-derived edibles?

DAMN YOU, SKELETREX!!!

My view is the prequel trilogy should never have been done. A hazy past is a powerful narrative element. It mirrors our own experience in life, coming of age and hearing war stories about the youthful exploits of what are now seemingly responsible, mild-mannered adults (parents, teachers, professional mentors). The war story is most effective when limited to recollected glimpses in a kind of revisionist highlight reel. The lack of detail lends an air of mystery and intrigue to the story. There’s some freedom for the audience to fill in the details on their own, to imagine what it must have been like and to fill in the gaps with their own speculation. Going back and spoon-feeding us all the details inherently diminishes the war story, even if the prequel is well executed. And the Star Wars prequels were not well executed. But the fucking nerds won out and Lucas gave them what they demanded: a detailed view into what turned out to be a pretty banal past fictional reality.

Fuck. Yes. I fucking love me some thrilling tales of fabricated bureaucratic trade disputes that for some reason lead to the mass slaughter of robots and nondescript clones who we don’t know or give a shit about, with a B plot focusing on a weird forbidden romance that leads the Galaxy’s Greatest Villain to make stupid, rash decisions because he’s an emo crybaby. Also… virgin birth!

Yep. My kids are coming up on college decisions in the next few years, and neither has any interest in staying in Texas. We hear the same from other parents and it’s not unusual to hear “As soon as the kids are out of high school, we’re leaving the state” or even “We’re telling the kids go out of state for school because we’re leaving Texas.” It doesn’t help that there’s only one high end public university in Texas, and it uses a singular inane metric to determine admissions. That pushes a lot of great students out of state. But mostly it’s because smart people see where the state is heading and want no part of it.

Over the course of decades, the GOP and its billionaire-backed think tanks successfully reframed freedom as a primarily economic issue. To be free meant corporations had the right to do whatever the fuck they wanted, without interference from laws or regulations. Of course, that’s some stupid fucking bullshit that isn’t good for anyone except the wealthy. But guess who can afford to buy the opinions of academics, judges, and the media?

No, YOU’RE retumsilly.

People follow jobs and, in many cases, the promise of lower taxes (which it turns out is an empty one in our fair state). Companies move here because of low corporate and no state income taxes (the latter which appeal to business decision makers, who typically sit at the extreme high end of the income spectrum). Texas is appealing to businesses, so employees end up here. But life for the working class hoi polloi would be better elsewhere. Other than job opportunities, Texas fucking sucks on a lot of quality of life metrics.

The Sound of Freedumb, imo

IST, imo.

Interesting

Came here to post this. Do yourselves a favor and give it a listen. Well worth it.

Me, springing out from behind a door to shout “BOO!”

I highly recommend the QAnon Anonyous podcast episode “Enter the Cavortex.”

Anastasis’d.