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  1. Have not posted in a long time in this thread. South Korea is getting it's ass kicked by Omicron right now. In December, there was a Delta surge, but it never really got out of control. They still traced everyone. Omicron arrived here just in time for the lunar new year which is a 3 day holiday where everyone goes home to see their families and it fell so that it was a five day weekend. After the holiday, Omicron has just been spreading like crazy. There had been 3000 deaths or so through the end of November, 2021. The Delta surge in December doubled that to around 6k. Omicron has doubled it again at over 13K at this moment. The number of total cases was 1 million at the beginning of February before the holiday. It broke 10 million total cases recently. Daily cases recently topped 400k and 400 deaths. They stopped contract tracing last month as there were just too many sick people now to trace them all. No more checking in on your phone/sign in sheets and temperature checks to enter businesses. Schools and businesses used to shut down if there was a case. Right now nothing shuts down. Just go home until you are better. Good news is Korea has nearly a 90% vaccination rate and like 2/3 have been boosted. Throw in universal health care and it helps a lot. Most of the dead are unvaccinated and/or at risk people who are being exposed for the first time, since the near universal mask wearing here and tracing previously helped get previous surges under control quickly. The worldometers web site has some crazy graphs showing how Omicron has really gone crazy in South Korea compared to how well COVID was handled the first couple years.
  2. Passive Aggressive Coach drops a deuce in the punch bowl and exits. Everyone argues over if the punch tastes shitty or not. He has not posted since his original four posts. He doesn't care. You all like to argue too much sometimes.
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    Iran

    If true, Iran is about to have one less military base.
  4. grr did not show the knock out
  5. "I like Ted Cruz". This guy really is fucking nuts.
  6. Fifteen percent of Israel speaks Russian currently. Many families there trace their origins back to Russia. So a sizeable minority of people there probably have Russian sympathies and are active in the Israeli government. I fear a massive civilian bloodbath. When you rule by fear and strength showing weakness is basically a death sentence.
  7. Surly white knight meeting up with Russian OnlyFans "model" after simping sending her money to survive.
  8. This is my big problem with it. When I was a kid I had to take a week of hunter's safety classes (for all ages - about 10 hours total) in order to get a license to hunt. About half the time was dedicated to the correct usage, carry, and storage of firearms. Even though my father had taught me all this, I still had to prove I understood it in the final test to pass. Don't pass, no hunting license. I'd like to see a gun safety course be required to purchase firearms. It would be boring as fuck for most responsible gun-owning people, but it might help reduce the number of idiots running around armed. Either because they are too dumb to pass or they learn a few things that would persuade them to be more responsible with them.
  9. Me reading this thread before page 20: Me reading since Page 20:
  10. Some early 2024 polls: Biden vs Trump or DeSantis Republican Primary A much closer poll of Biden vs Trump
  11. Agent K got it right.
  12. It can turn your skin blue ... permanently. Taking Blue Lives Matter to the extreme to own the libs.
  13. She really is a moron. Protein shakes are only available in male prisons .
  14. Crypto bros are the new vegans. They can't shut up about it and don't realize nobody else gives a shit.
  15. Me too. I was pretty certain he was an all in MAGA. He turned down MAGA millions and called out Trump for his divisiveness as president. He is obviously a true believer and has enough character to not let himself be used by the GQP, at least for now. I can respect this guy. He had to know he was most likely throwing his career away to speak out and he is turning his back on the group that would make him a millionaire, if he would become a MAGA puppet, post military career. He obviously sincerely believes what he is speaking out about.
  16. He's upset the home fans are giving him shit about his vaccine stance.
  17. https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-biden-honored-members-180612827.html
  18. USA Today fact checked the Biden picture. There is a full video and he checked his watch after the ceremony had ended, not during it.
  19. Damn. Who knew GRR Martin is actually Ted fucking Cruz? No wonder he writes at a snail's pace. He's not lazy, he is just too busy being an asshole in the U.S. Senate and licking Trump's taint.
  20. I have always said that OU and/or Texas would have to leave the B12 first, for KU to separate from KSU. We share a BoR and though we could just go, it would make things very thorny, for a very long time. As long as KU stays quiet, it is a good sign they have something cooking with another conference. I hope it is KU to the B1G with ISU (so another school finds a home), but it could be CU or even multiple schools from the PAC. I know at one point that the B1G had talked about possibly going past 20 if they got the right schools. If KU starts joining in the bellyaching, then it is a sign we are fucked, at least in the short term. I hope everyone finds a good home if UT and OU leave in the end, but likely some, or all of us, might be fucked. I will be disappointed if KU throws up roadblocks, even if KU ends up fucked. This was always coming sooner or later without quality expansion, and if KU gets left out it is our own fault for letting football be neglected for decades and not being proactive enough working the back channels with other conferences, especially considering what happened in realignment a decade ago. Worst case, KU kills FB and pours even more dollars into basketball. Texas and OU not joining the B12 call means this is more or less a done deal. I have nothing against Texas and OU for wanting to leave, if they do. I think KU and Texas have a good relationship going back to helping with 3rd tier stuff when Texas was getting the LHN up and running that continued with KU/UT games on the LHN. I know back when we used to only play once a year in BB, in the 12 school era, KU/UT were talking of playing 1 more game OOC so each got a game at home each year. We have a 100 plus year relationship with OU that seems pretty good. The NIL stuff means that schools need to maximize their revenue to stay at the top. This was always the timeline (2021-2023) for the B12 to die if they did not expand from or partner with another P5 league. It is entirely likely some PAC teams will be heading to the B1G. The PAC is not in good financial shape. I think in the end we see 2 super conferences more or less. A merging/pairing of the SEC/ACC (ESPN) and a B1G/PAC (multiple networks). Two large conferences rather than 5 gives a lot more negotiating leverage in the future. Get rid of the NCAA and that billion a year in BB revenue is waiting to be scooped up too.
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