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  1. Got anything to add, sporto?
  2. It's not a doorbell camera, but they may make one. Wyze is ex-Ring employees and they have cheap but remarkably good shit.
  3. I think the programs that we are judging ourselves against are Ohio State, Georgia, and Alabama (to a somewhat lesser extent because of Saban's retirement). Day has been at OSU for eight years, head coach for seven and inherited Urb's program pretty intact, which program had been rolling since 2014, at least. Kirby Smart has been HFC at UGa for nine years. And while Richt could never get over the hump, Georgia was not exactly in shambles when Kirbo took over. I don't think I need to explain Alabama. The coaching and recruiting continuity at those programs is what makes the difference.
  4. An interesting facet here. It seems that this is two FTCA claims, filed in 2023 and 2024, during the Biden Administration. As noted above, six months after a claim is filed, the claimant has the option of treating it as "denied by operation of law." That is, they can file suit. Like a Motion for New Trial in Texas is deemed denied after 75 days. However, unlike Texas MNT practice, that apparently is only an option, it doesn't force the filing of suit. The claimant can wait until the claim is actually denied to file suit. So, the Biden DOJ could have denied the claims, forcing Trump to file suit. Similarly, the Trump DOJ has had ample time to grant or deny the claims. The Biden DOJ obviously should have denied the claims. It's a mystery why the Trump DOJ didn't do so quietly and in early 2025. Now the cat is out of the bag. Trump doesn't want to file suit, because he will lose.
  5. Evil takes a toll. I saw something on Daily Beast that I didn't look into, but apparently, recently, Trump went on some kind of rampage to get a newly divorced Vought fucked by one of the plastic fantastic Mar A Lago critters.
  6. Yep, MAGA is a motley coalition of people with highly retrograde views that center on white supremacy. Past that, a lot of them are at odds with each other and once and if "the dog catches the car" and they attain power, it's going to turn into an even bigger shit show as the coalition dissolves into infighting. Even Yarvin, who advocates for a benign dictator, admits that the benign part may be hard to pull off, because he can't ignore history.
  7. Outstanding post. Wish I could rep it more.
  8. I can't even analyze the tattoo thing because it is so anathema. I'm not sure what anyone is thinking when they get a tat or what the thought process is about having them removed. If I had somehow acquired a tattoo, one of my first sober thoughts would be about removing it. I know there are a lot of people on the board with ink. I just cannot relate to that.
  9. Is there any value to the notion that Platner, or a candidate like him, could argue that as a young man he was caught up in edgy internet culture, the precursors to groypers, and the "manosphere," but has come to realize how he was deceived and how wrong and immature are those positions and policies behind them. Thus, making him a "considered liberal" who has "been there and done that."
  10. Point of order, I don't spend a lot of time thinking about bail, but am perfectly willing to a) point out that its original purpose was to ensure appearance at trial, not "protect the public" and b) agree with a lot of critics that it has morphed into something that unduly penalizes the underclass while being untethered to either insuring appearance at trial or public safety. So, bail reform seems quite warranted, especially for lower-level offenses. It is possible, and even likely, that it has gone too far the other way, but a lot of that is informed by hindsight bias.
  11. Another quandary in the whole criminal justice/sentencing mess is homicide. A lot of homicide is a really one-off crime, for example Amber Guyger. So, as heinous as is "murder" or the taking of another life, a whole lot of murderers are pretty unlikely to do it again or really to engage in other criminality. Yet, we are pretty likely to punish them severely and incapacitate them for years, and they will be released as social and economic cripples. I'm not suggesting we let murderers off scot-free, but it's a ponderable. And, as said many times here, I think the best case for long-term incarceration is the repeat offender. But I have this sneaking suspicion that we manufacture a lot of those with our justice and social policies.
  12. Crime varies as a function of social unrest. I think that is indisputable. And our systems, which tend to ignore the least of us, combined with the near-unattainable "American Dream," create a lot of social unrest. So, social unrest leads to crime leads to incarceration. And incarceration feeds the unrest. Some of it is "our nature," but justice policies aren't helping.
  13. Well, that does ratify my thinking that our line last year wasn't championship quality. Bet it wasn't so hot in 23 either.
  14. What are those numbers for run blocking? My sense of it is that we've never been that good run blocking.
  15. Further on this, these are old enough that they were filed during the Biden Administration and likely the administrative portion should have been disposed of by the Biden DOJ.
  16. I am aware. But in both instances, it was the Germans who initiated these novel forms of warfare. And I should have been more precise about neutral or non-combatant merchant shipping and passenger shipping in civilian service and not by mistake. To my mind that may be worth a couple of extra depravity points.
  17. Not an FTCA expert by any means, but yeah those sound right. And I believe you have 180 days two years to file your claim once it accrues. Which is what I think gets most people and would seem to bar most of this shit. I don't think his malicious prosecution claims accrued until the cases were dismissed/terminated in his favor, which was not until whenever Smith formally dismissed them. The Russia-gate stuff would seem to be long barred.
  18. Oh, that's probably what is going on at the Tower, except a couple of offices here and there. It's 201 W. Seventh and 1100 Congress that you have to worry about
  19. TwiceHorn

    Hubris

    To be fair, although the problems that have exploded this year have been present to varying degrees in the past, the problems have not become acute until now. That is, it was at least somewhat justifiable for Sark to ignore the critics given the program state the past two years, and the progress made over the preceding two. It would have been ideal for him to self-diagnose the problem with the match between play calling and personnel and execution capability as well as potential problems with the pipeline and coaching there of.
  20. He does raise the valid point that at least in theory, the compact could be accepted and then maliciously complied with until arbitrary enforcement revokes the preference and we're no worse off fiscally than having rejected it, and maybe a tad better off. A performative acceptance of a performative proposal, if you will. I'm not really troubled by any failure to respond to those pointing out that it's just a performative power grab.
  21. Whether he "asked" or not, I think it is crystal clear that his campaign(s) paid for all of his many defenses. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/trumps-use-campaign-funds-pay-legal-bills
  22. For other than "constitutional" torts, anyone having a tortious (non-contractual) legal claim against the federal government or any of its officials must go through the Federal Tort Claims Act. That Act provides a system through which a claim is submitted outside of court and can be paid or settled by the government before a suit is filed. Once the process is exhausted, and a claim denied by the administrative process, a lawsuit can be filed. This applies to you, me, and everyone else, including Trump. For all but the most minor of claims with the most obvious liability, i.e. a drunken FBI agent runs a red light and t-bones your car, leading to a $10,000 property and personal injury claim, you, me, and everyone else would be forced to file suit. The obvious answer for this is to deny his claim and force him to file suit. Not that any of that will happen.
  23. I think that has more to do with Asians being authoritarians and communitarians.
  24. Nixon declared the War on Drugs in 1971. And, this is going to be like Vietnam and all the rest since: a guerilla war in a place where life is cheap and livelihood (if not freedom/self-determination per se) is at stake and a loser for us that ends only when we tire of the loss of American lives.
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