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Thereās 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. Heās still the last defensive player to win NFL MVP and only one of two to ever do so. Iād 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 itās own special category of madness. My heart says team Texas should be KD/Earl but my head says itās probably KD/Clemens. I donāt think either team catches UNC or Stanford if you include golf.
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My wife was all about the ābreast is bestā thing and so was our hospital. It wasnāt going well at first and rather than discussing the benefits of supplementing, the nurses were suggesting formula in a vaguely menacing manner, like weād 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 ābreast is bestā movement is spotty and doesnāt really account for population. Parents who are able to exclusively breastfeed generally are better educated, so their kids will obviously do better. Itās not the milk; itās 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 wonāt magically turn your kid into an X-man and formula wonāt turn the kid into a Tech grad. Along the same lines, a lot of professional parenting advice is fear and guilt based. Itās 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 donāt 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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Itās a fun question for probably a different thread, but my quick nomination for ābest 1/2 punch of any college for different major sportsā is UNC MJ/LT. There are probably other good ones, but Iām not sure if itās 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 heās 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 ā and still better than staying ā isnāt being honest. If you donāt like how heās doing it, then why didnāt your side do it the āright wayā over the past 20 years? Itās because your āright wayā 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 itāll be pretty common going forward. I know just one breakthrough who was briefly hospitalized.
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I donāt think itās possible to jump a line that doesnāt exist.
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I enjoyed the interview. KDās perspective on basketball is intriguing to me. My armchair view is that heās 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 thereās a difference in motivation. The way he talked about the beauty of Kyrieās 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 Iām reading too much into it. Their discussion about the argument and management seemed to be a bit of a rationalization and oversimplification. It didnāt 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, Iām 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 itās a lesser crisis, but itās still a crisis. And maybe it would have been worse. As weāve 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 Iāve missed something today ā Iāve been busyā in terms of American interests, itās 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 weāre currently betraying havenāt been slaughtered yet. It sucks and it didnāt have to be that way, but every solution was bad. 8. I donāt know what Iām talking about and except for a small few posters here, you donāt either. Your plan sucks too. Even the fantasy plans of the few who know what theyāre doing were destined for a crisis. 9. That doesnāt excuse Bidenās failures, his plan has really sucked, but Iām not going to complain that he doesnāt seem to be calling the touchdown play. 10. Maybe heās 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. Iāll even take ham-fisted, over-captioned Ben Garrison slop.
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Medice, cura te ipsum.
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Good for you and for her. Hereās hoping the Greater Lubbock Bridge and VD Club have many years of getting Mama-Slorchād. But seriously, any unvaccinated person getting the shot is good news. And itās encouragement to keep gently bugging my unvaccinated friends.
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A lot of higher ed is trying to figure stuff out right before class and slapping it up on a power point.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
Mole replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
Iām hoping thatās a euphemism for permanently banning them from campus, otherwise, whatās the point of admin if they wonāt support faculty when theyāre assaulted? -
Before my kid was born, I was about 60 lbs overweight and hadnāt been to the doctor in close to a decade. Kid born -> regular doctor visits -> lost 60 lbs. The idea of not being around for all that good stuff ā not being around for him or me ā is terrifying. I canāt imagine risking that because of my political beliefs.
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Apple Will Now Scan Your iPhone For Sexual Abuse Photos
Mole replied to Doc Reeves's topic in Daily Texan
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Apple Will Now Scan Your iPhone For Sexual Abuse Photos
Mole replied to Doc Reeves's topic in Daily Texan
My kid is years away from having any sort of phone, but if he was of phone age, I'd appreciate the anti-sexting feature. Kids do stupid stuff, but I'd rather the more destructive stupidity be annoying to accomplish so that the lazy/less-destructive stupidity wins out. But maybe I'm underestimating the intrinsic motivation of sending dick pics. -
I found a source for 800,000 (from 2012): https://reuters.com/article/amp/idUSBRE83P14020120426 Eat your heart out Darrell Huff, author of How to Lie With Statistics.
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I wonder if that number is totally made up or just a product of creative statistics. Maybe particularly contentious divorce/custody situations get called āmissingā, a family goes homeless and now the kid is āmissingā, a kid gets briefly reported as missing but really just needed to charge their phone, and then you can get any number you want. Itād be nice to have an honest assessment of the situation, since the reality is probably bad enough. Absurd numbers just make it easier to dismiss. I guess Soul Asylum needs to bring back a longer version of their song.
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It might have come from the wet market or it might have leaked from the lab. Smart people who have no reason to make stuff up seem to say it wasnāt manufactured, so Iām inclined to believe them. We could use a bipartisan investigation into the origins and international alignment on the appropriate response and more importantly, a plan to stop future pandemics. Weāll get the My Pillow Guy hosting Jim Jordan at the Plandemic Cyber Symposium for a 144-hour lecture on miasmata and essential oils. Thatās probably what we deserve.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
Mole replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
It sure seems like the backup plan in my state is to shut things down for two weeks. I know an administrator who just had to shut things down a few days ago ā the whole district. Small districts donāt have a lot of resources. Delta is so much more contagious and teachers probably arenāt getting vaccinated in large enough numbers in rural areas. Of course no one wants to use masks in rural areas. If you refuse to use any of the tools to keep things running, then things might not keep running. Things shut down fast. -
AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
Mole replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
Itās fun to talk about high-minded thing like muh freedoms vs. who will think about the children, all the relative risk management issues with kids, or even the nuts and bolts of funding, but there are schools shutting down in my state for a very simple reason. An outbreak among the faculty very quickly over strains the already strained resources of a district. It doesnāt take much for an exposure at a faculty meeting to shut a school down. You can talk all you want about wanting the best for the kids, but once faculty start having to isolate for two weeks, you lose the ability to have school pretty quickly. -
I have no idea. My service was as cushy as military service could be. My experience was so far from the things we imagine as military service, so I'm not even sure if I'm qualified to answer those questions. I suspect you'd get 1000 different answers if you polled 1000 service members. I remember a conversation I had with another soldier on the way to a funeral mission. He had a more typical Army experience than me. We were talking about why we joined. I talked about practical things like the details of the job I had, the excitement over learning new things, supporting my family, ect. I didn't mention any of the Army value stuff they pound into you. I guess all of these things can help provide meaning to the inherent stupidity. The Army values are fine values, but I joined for "selfish" reasons rather than all that patriotic stuff. This soldier was a bit baffled that all that stuff didn't play into my service. He was all about the romance of military service and couldn't comprehend my mindset. I just wanted to do my job well and learn new things and couldn't wrap my brain around his way of thinking. We both did our jobs well, so I guess the difference didn't really matter. I'm not sure if there's a coherent way to find meaning in an organization that is so absurd while taking part in actions that are so absurd. So much of it is so dumb, but it has a real human cost. We spent the past 20 years -- an entire military career -- fighting "terror" with so little tangible good to show for it and a lot of really bad stuff; and now leaving is hurting people like InkaUTexas' friends. I don't know how meaning, value, or honorableness can be assessed in such a messed up situation.
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