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I always said Legos, but since my son has gotten really into them, I’ve noticed that all the Lego nerds we watch seem to use Lego as plural. I’ll take any chance I can get to use the awkward, unintuitive, and pompous sounding phrasing. Life’s more fun that way. Just like someone using data as plural communicates that they’re more likely to understand the data they’re using, plural Lego seems to be a Lego nerd shibboleth.
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CNN sucks, especially in the Trump and post-Trump era, but not for the reasons conservatives claim.
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If you can include swimmers, Phelps/Brady probably beats MJ/LT for top spot, maybe.
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There absolutely could have been a better plan and this whole thing really sucks. There’s a bit of a difference between discussing the shortcomings — some avoidable and some unavoidable — and their possible solutions vs. the breathless magical thinking hot takes that have become the political side of this discussion. I’ll listen all day to informed thoughts and plans, but even those pretty words don’t really convey the uncertainty and problems they introduce. I never served in Afghanistan so I don’t understand the region at all, but I spent enough time in the military to understand that any kind of operation is mostly sausage making that often looks pretty disastrous in the moment. The closer you look, the uglier it seems. Everyone always seems to have a brilliant plan for how it should be done better. I don’t know anything about how Afghanistan works, but I know how we work, and it’s messier than we like to pretend. Add in all the competing interests of everyone involved and the sudden power vacuum, it’s guaranteed chaos. If you or someone else who understands what’s going wants to tell me their proposed solution, great, but that’s a bit different than the political hackery/brilliant plans this version of the thread keeps cyclically slipping into. In the alternate universe where the “right” plan happened, we’d by having a similar thread for whatever crisis that plan caused and the same hacks would be complaining about those problems and proposing their obvious magical solution. I’ll definitely admit to too much nihilism about this issue. I should work on that. I think Biden might share my nihilism. He should work on that too.
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Political Twitter is just competing propagandas. I guess it’s fun to hear the Republican war monger hits again. It harkens back to better days and better football, but man it’s a beating to follow those Twitter links. Also, anyone who has some simple or complex plan to leave without starting a crisis isn’t being honest. Talking about the problems or missteps is fine and great, but your plan sucks too. Your way would have started a slightly different crisis — maybe a little better or maybe a little worse, but still terrible. Stop pretending. My reading between the Biden lines is that their analysis was that there’s no good way to leave, so let’s just get out. Leaving is bad, staying is worse, so pick any terrible plan because none of them will work well and they still beat the alternative. The Clash taught us that 40 years ago.
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A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
Mole replied to Francisco 2.0's topic in Cloak Room
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I’ll admit to knowing very little about the wet markets until sometime last year. I had heard the term but given them little thought. There are obviously unsanitary conditions and unsavory practices associated with them, but if you had told me five years ago about a market where you can buy fish so fresh that they’re still swimming, I would have thought that pretty great. That is to say, I get why they’re bad, but I get why people love them.
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UNC has to reach a bit for baseball to add to the MJ/LT domination. They’ve had a few solid MLB players but nothing close to great. They also had Moonlight Graham, which is fun.
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The lead paint may explain some of our current situation.
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Jesus: you shall not put the Lord you God to the test. OT God: Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did at Massah. Paul: Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. Paul: Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. Jesus: Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ American Christians: still waiting on God
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I know a few Baylor grads, some are pretty smart, some are decent humans. I don't know any that are both if I'm honest. Good folks but dumb, or smart shitheads who fuck people regardless of consent. When me too hit, a classmate from grad school told her date rape story on Facebook but didn’t name names. My wife messaged her and among other things, correctly guessed the perp. It was the Baylor grad.
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There’s a good case for LT as the greatest defensive player of all time. Teams game-planned against him like you would Montana, Rice, or Barry Sanders. He changed the game as much as any player ever. He’s still the last defensive player to win NFL MVP and only one of two to ever do so. I’d put MJ/LT over Tiger/Elway, but maybe it depends on your perspective of the value of QBs then vs. today. Jim Brown/Jim Brown is probably it’s own special category of madness. My heart says team Texas should be KD/Earl but my head says it’s probably KD/Clemens. I don’t think either team catches UNC or Stanford if you include golf.
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My wife was all about the “breast is best” thing and so was our hospital. It wasn’t going well at first and rather than discussing the benefits of supplementing, the nurses were suggesting formula in a vaguely menacing manner, like we’d be permanently tainting our child by getting him fed. Every time my wife picked up the kid for the first day or so, it was just to work at trying to nurse. It was miserable. Finally I had to step in and make sure she was just enjoying holding her child and not missing out. The nurses did a terrible job for my wife and child at a vulnerable time and I had to step in to reassert what actually mattered. She never produced enough, so we ended up doing a mix of formula and nursing. It worked great. The research behind the “breast is best” movement is spotty and doesn’t really account for population. Parents who are able to exclusively breastfeed generally are better educated, so their kids will obviously do better. It’s not the milk; it’s the parents. If she enjoys that time nursing, great, but enjoying the time together and getting the kid fed is key, not the magic milk. Her milk won’t magically turn your kid into an X-man and formula won’t turn the kid into a Tech grad. Along the same lines, a lot of professional parenting advice is fear and guilt based. It’s based on misunderstandings of half-assed research and is usually pretty manipulative. Reject the parenting industrial complex and just love your kid well. Make sure they feel safe and loved and everything else will work out well.
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Other nominees that don’t quite meet the standard: Brady/CWebb, Kareem/Aikman, Montana/Yaz sort of, Bonds/Harden, Golden Bear/Havlicek/tOSU. Tiger/Elway is pretty good.
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It’s a fun question for probably a different thread, but my quick nomination for “best 1/2 punch of any college for different major sports” is UNC MJ/LT. There are probably other good ones, but I’m not sure if it’s possible to top that one.
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Put another way, and only slightly tongue in cheek, as bad as the current situation is, staying is worse, so he’s done a better job than the previous 3 presidents who all failed to get out. Doing the right thing, warts and all, is better than kicking the can down the road. If the Republican way was so good, they had plenty of chances to do it but they failed. There is plenty of room for criticism, but anyone failing to acknowledge that even the best plan would have been a disaster — and still better than staying — isn’t being honest. If you don’t like how he’s doing it, then why didn’t your side do it the ”right way” over the past 20 years? It’s because your “right way” would have been terrible too. Apparently it takes an addled old man to have the balls to do the right thing even poorly. Everyone can say how they would have done it better, yet it never seemed to happen.
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My wife and I were breakthroughs a few weeks back; I know a fair number of others. My anecdotal guess is that it’ll be pretty common going forward. I know just one breakthrough who was briefly hospitalized.
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I don’t think it’s possible to jump a line that doesn’t exist.
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I enjoyed the interview. KD’s perspective on basketball is intriguing to me. My armchair view is that he’s largely motivated a kind of basketball self-actualization rather than simply the pursuit of victory. Great play and winning often go hand in hand, but there’s a difference in motivation. The way he talked about the beauty of Kyrie’s game, his high school experience, his reasons for joining the Warriors, etc., he wants to win, but he seems more motivated by a more abstracted version of great basketball. I know we like to romanticize the sociopathic zero-sum hypercompetitiveness of players like MJ, but I appreciate the purity of basketball for its own sake. Or maybe I’m reading too much into it. Their discussion about the argument and management seemed to be a bit of a rationalization and oversimplification. It didn’t feel fully genuine to me. Sometimes we have to tell ourselves lies to make peace with people we like and respect. No biggie to me.
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Setting aside important questions like how many posters fantasize about shooting refugees at our border, the more I think about the subject of this thread, I’m left with a collection unsatisfying conclusions: 1. Every possible plan was bad and had a good chance of being a total disaster. 2. Maybe the current one is the darkest timeline, but not by all that much. 3. All these hot-take brilliant or obvious plans how to get out smoothly are a little like complaining about not calling the touchdown play. Your plan sucks too and would be a disaster. Yes, you. 4. The only way to avoid such a disaster would be to stay, which pretty much everyone agrees only delays the suffering and is truly the worst plan. 5. Pulling all the people currently clamoring to get out earlier would have probably avoided the current crisis, but with the bonus of creating its own crisis. Maybe it’s a lesser crisis, but it’s still a crisis. And maybe it would have been worse. As we’ve learned, things can always get worse. 6. Whether or not the intelligence was wrong is somewhat irrelevant to the current crisis. It was destined to be a crisis of some sort. This is like the worst kind of trolley problem. 7. Unless I’ve missed something today — I’ve been busy— in terms of American interests, it’s still mostly a hypothetical crisis. Afghan women were destined to be subjugated once the choice was made to leave. The humanitarian crisis was somewhat baked in. The people we want to get out and that we’re currently betraying haven’t been slaughtered yet. It sucks and it didn’t have to be that way, but every solution was bad. 8. I don’t know what I’m talking about and except for a small few posters here, you don’t either. Your plan sucks too. Even the fantasy plans of the few who know what they’re doing were destined for a crisis. 9. That doesn’t excuse Biden’s failures, his plan has really sucked, but I’m not going to complain that he doesn’t seem to be calling the touchdown play. 10. Maybe he’s calling the touch shovel pass play with the squinty-eyed freshman QB, which sucks.
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More cartoons and fewer people acting like cartoons, please. I’ll even take ham-fisted, over-captioned Ben Garrison slop.
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