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  1. BrickHorn

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    Any of y’all have any experience with CBN? Apparently some studies have indicated it might help with sleep. I stumbled on some 10 mg CBN + 10 mg CBD gummies at a farmer’s market (first mistake…) and decided to give them a shot. Long story short: I’m not sure I slept any better but, at a half-gummy dose, I experienced mild psychoactive effects while falling asleep. So either this farmer slipped some D9 in there or CBN has noticeable psychoactive properties at pretty low dosage.
  2. Anyone else going to Ripplefest? I’m not a music fest guy but I’d like to go for one day. Just not sure which one, as they haven’t posted daily lineups as far as I can tell.
  3. And of course, you delivered.
  4. Fair enough. As a soccer parent, I agree that youth development is fucked up.
  5. Huh. Just five minutes ago, I mentioned to a friend that there will be a flood of culture warriors stumbling over legitimate insights in their race to deliver inane and irrelevant hot takes on the USWNT’s failure.
  6. Yep. This will hopefully be a wake-up for the program. No more pandering to stars of yesteryear. No more expecting that we can dominate based on athleticism alone. Train in a smart system, develop chemistry, and play your best 11 (judged based on how they play as a unit, and not just individual talent). If the USWNT make that shift, there’s no reason they can’t regain their spot at the top of world soccer. The program needed some humility to force smart personnel and tactical decisions. I hope it makes them.
  7. No. He didn’t say that the team can’t pass well, so he clearly wasn’t talking about arrogance.
  8. Looks shopped.
  9. I slept through it until midway through the pens. From the stats, it looks like we dominated but the Swedish keeper had the game of her life. Is that the gist?
  10. Ha. Our keeper nails it right after our Star forward skies it.
  11. There’s something deliciously ironic about a guy who cites The Turner Diaries as a source proposing that idiots should be forcefully sterilized.
  12. You mean websites where people publish articles advocating that minorities are not inferior and that we should not forcefully sterilize dumb people? Yeah, no. We would not be upset about that. But nice #bothsides attempt.
  13. You’re mixing up tactical intelligence and chemistry with effort and mental toughness. Consistently failing to connect with teammates because of errant passes isn’t an effort thing and isn’t about failing to “play for the shirt.” It certainly doesn’t indicate a lack of “mental fortitude.” It’s a symptom of low mental aptitude. But maybe you’re saying the same thing, just with the wrong words?
  14. New Surly motto?
  15. This is the kind of Hollywood trope BS that had Longhorn fans convinced Charlie Strong’s locker room purge would win us a national championship. The USWNT isn’t lacking mental fortitude or grit or heart or team spirit. It has all that shit in spades. What it lacks is tactical intelligence, chemistry, and skill. The identity article Hagbard posted above completely nails it. Tl;dr: the USWNT used to dominate with massive advantages in fitness and athleticism, which allowed us to routinely win one-on-one battles and score with direct play. But the rest of the world has caught up and those advantages have shrunk. We’re playing against smarter more skilled competition, and they’re exposing how primitive is our approach to the game.
  16. Lack of effort and heart aren’t our problems. The ladies run their asses off and contest every ball. The issue is lack of skill, tactical smarts, and chemistry.
  17. My tentative plan is to move elsewhere and change careers, hopefully to something in the unfucking-this-country-from-the-effects-of-rightwing-bullshit business.
  18. I moved a lot as a kid. My dad was always willing to pick up and transplant us to wherever his next promotion took him. I used to love the fact that my wife and I did things differently. We settled in one spot, started a family, and grew roots into the community. I loved that our kids spent their entire childhood in one city, not having to start over every few years. I loved that we have deep, long term friendships here with work colleagues, parents whose kids went to elementary school or played sports with our kids, neighbors, etc. I loved that my career was locally focused and that I have deep, established ties to my professional community. Now it all feels like a trap. All those deep ties bind us to a state that grows more hostile, stupider, and hotter with every passing year.
  19. I just rewatched the first 15:00 of the Portugal game. It was like watching a U14 ECNL team (Portugal) play against a U17 rec team (US). Portugal was clearly smarter and more skilled, but our size, speed, and aggression kept us in the game. (It surely wasn’t our dribbling, passing, or team chemistry.)
  20. Oh right, because you’re sitting down.
  21. BrickHorn

    Austin FC

  22. In 2019, we attended a WC game. It was clear then that Dunn had very little feel for the position. But she had just been moved from forward, so her lack of awareness and instinct was somewhat understandable. Four years later, she still plays with the same cluelessness.
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