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Duplantier posts here under the name @The_Great_Hornsby.

Hold on. If we score more runs, we can win the game? Has anyone told Pierce?

This shit right here. I have no idea why we don't run the touchdown play wherever we have fewer runs.

Avalon: Big Box - similar vibes, but it's even a better game that doesn't devolve quite as much into "That's what I drew!" There are other (cheaper) versions out there, but the art on them looks pretty dated and can make them a harder sell.

User name definitely does not check out.

ATTS Breed Statistics This quote up at the top amuses me... ...but the 87.6% pass rate isn't even remotely close to 4th best.

It looks like your updates are now going in reverse chronological order. Or I'm having a stroke. Regardless, thank you for the continued updates.

Sounds like something someone who is part of Big LED would say.

Sounds like he's about to run for Congress in Michigan.

I noticed no one had commented on this "thought experiment" - presumably because they were told there would be no math - but it's such a good example of its ilk that I couldn't pass by without comment. They're easy to make: start with conclusion that conforms to your worldview, construct a straw man that misconstrues what climatologists/immunologists/biologists/real scientists actually say, and then use science words and math and *chef's kiss* Latin to demolish it. Afterwards, monetize it with a YouTube video, podcast, and your choice of religion/cult/political party. Good scientists work really hard to disprove their hypotheses. If after trying as hard as you can to disprove an idea your hypothesis still makes sense, then maybe you're onto something. Probably not, though. In this specific case, the argument is basically that because it's spectacularly, unbelievably unlikely that even a "micro-genome" could be created randomly, abiogenesis is essentially impossible. The math is correct-ish, it's just that biologists don't actually think that basic chemicals spontaneously came together to produce anything that remotely resembled a modern organism. Without diving too far down the biology rabbit hole, there are lots of intermediate steps that scientists think happened along the way, and those things are extremely likely to have happened. For one thing, biochemistry isn't something that just happens randomly, and you can generate self-replicators in very short time scales. This argument is the rough equivalent of saying that humans could never make helicopters because all they started off with were rocks and sticks and fire. Has science solved the origin of life? Nope. There are still some tricky bits left - it's just that those bits seem likely to fall into the "shit we just haven't figured out yet" category rather than the "supernatural causes" category, just like every other time we've run into something that we thought could only be explained by the presence of a deity. A helpful heuristic? When you see an argument on the internet that says something as ridiculous as "Few who claim scientifically to believe that life on earth arose spontaneously have bothered to look at the reasonability of the null hypothesis of this occurrence with even marginal rigor", it's probably bullshit.

Yes. Just ask Hitler.

wikiHow - How to Leave a Cult (with Pictures)

It seems like you're paranoid and having a stroke, so it's likely you fit right in with the olds under discussion.

Have you heard that their fathers were roommates?

Plow ahead. If you're struggling, there are some rules explanation videos on YouTube that are available.

They're not that lucky. If they win today, they have to play Texas.

I'd love to get an equivalent of Reddit's "Your Joke, but Worse" started as a thread here in 2024, and I think you could be a real contributor.

I have so many questions, but I actually don't want the answers.

@sushihorn had a great post earlier in the week with stats on Big XII pass rush performance in bowl games relative to the regular season. The TL;DR: Washington?

This is how I prefer to watch big games now days. I'll be pacing back and forth and drinking whisky alone in the living room. I feel more comfortable like this than watching with a big crowd like at a bar. NTTAWWT

I'm from Missouri on this guy, but this is the sort of stat that makes me curious about the NIL/portal market and how negotiation works there. The Texas roster has a number of players who haven't shown up in stats in a significant way that I think it would suck to lose, but how much bandwidth does Texas - or anyone else - have to look for them on other teams?