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Mole

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  1. I don’t care about the financial aspects of it. No one is cutting me a check. I don’t really care about the recruiting aspect of it except that I want the teams to have good players. Whatever coaches are selling on the recruiting trail seems like someone else’s problem. I also don’t put much stock into the academic reputation of sports conferences unless we’re joining the Ivy League. When it comes to college sports, I just want to watch more big games. There will definitely be more big football and baseball matchups. I’ll miss the excitement of Texas/Kansas basketball though. Reviving two old rivalries will be fun too, even if they won’t be the marquee matchups. On the whole, this seems like a path to more fun, which seems to be the point to me.
  2. Who knew aggy still used the Julian Calendar.
  3. No matter what happens, I’m counting on Thujone’s trenchant analysis to help make sense of it all.
  4. I'm on team, we have very different understandings of the word pyramid.
  5. FIFY. See “an artist’s response to justified criticism” and Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony.
  6. Kareem was 24 when he won with the Bucks.
  7. Are you a time traveler? Also, a few months ago this board had lots saying he didn’t have what it takes.
  8. I love the energy right as teams are about to win the finals. It’s such a weird expectant intensity.
  9. The truth always lies in the middle of two points, no matter how nonsensical. Fauci isn’t responsible for all 4,000,000+ COVID deaths. He’s just responsible for ~2,000,000 deaths and half of the economic problems. This has been established.
  10. I moved away from Texas shortly before the descent into madness, but most of my social circle from Texas has lost their minds. “Fauci belongs in prison” is common, as is some nefarious connection with Bill Gates, and of course vaccines/masks/human decency is the mark of the beast. Q beliefs are common. The flat earth thing seems to be strangely coming up recently as well. I haven’t specifically heard the microchip stuff, but instead I hear dressed up pseudoscience versions of similar concepts. It’s not microchips, but the shot put something in me that’ll do the same thing. Also, apparently the shot was fake too? Probably 20% seem to believe that the vaccinated will die within months because reasons. It’s been nuts. A white single mother with mixed race children started expressing support for Christian nationalism. One guy seems to believe that the sun is fake or something. I can’t figure it out. These are all people I knew very well several years ago and were all normal, sane people. They were close friends. They’ve jettisoned from reality.
  11. This is profoundly poetic and a perfect reflection of our present day culture.
  12. Admitting that she has a moral compass just reveals that she was a coward the whole time. I guess that’s an improvement for her, but it’s no endorsement if she has an future political aspirations. I like elected representatives who aren’t sniveling cowards afraid to do the right thing.
  13. When the BLM protests were going on, some folks wanted to turn it into a thing about communism. When Cuba is (hopefully) overthrowing their communist regime, we’re treated to a discussion of BLM in the Cuba thread. Weird, yet predictable. Contrafact is a musical term describing a musical work based on a prior work. For example, jazz musicians would take the chords to popular tunes like “I’ve Got Rhythm” and write new melodies. The old Flintstones theme is an example of a tune based on “I’ve Got Rhythm.” Placing the familiar in a different context can be compelling. I’m not sure if there’s a political science term to describe a similar concept, but it sure seems appropriate here.
  14. 1. The broader anti-vaccine movement as well as COVID vaccine resistance is a symptom of our gradual societal disengagement from reality. We’ve always had people make terrible and irresponsible choices, but now poor choices are points of pride. 2. As good as it feels to rage against anti-vaxxers for their role in creating variants, it’s probably a drop in the bucket compared to the variant factories in countries with less vaccine access. It doesn’t help and it certainly spreads death and destruction, but there will be variants either way. 3. Comparing failure to get your COVID shot with failure to get your annual flu shot — which you should also get — is asinine. It’s just noise to muddy the waters and justify irresponsible choices. 4. I’ll admit that before my first COVID shot, my lizard brain told me that I would turn into a newt or something, but we don’t have to believe our lizard brains. I wonder if messaging that more explicitly acknowledged normal but entirely irrational and absurd fears would be more effective than the way we do things. When my four year old is having a meltdown, you can’t reason with him until you acknowledge that he’s really angry that you threw the dirty paper towel in the trash. Once I let him know that I get why he’s so angry, we can have a more rational discussion and be normal people. Stupid thoughts and fears are still real feelings and can only be faced once you see them for what they are.
  15. She’s not a martyr, but a sad, pathetic victim of Trump and his movement. He and the other leaders of his movement killed her. In that moment, she had to be stopped, but I blame GOP leaders for her life and the lives of the dead and injured cops. Those leaders sacrificed her life. They used her and are continuing to use her in her death. She’s ultimately responsible for the actions that led to her death, but without the movement, she’d be alive today ranting about more harmless madness.
  16. There was an article posted sometime in the past month or so where they were interviewing rural Trump voters. The discussion mostly centered around the COVID stimulus money that “Trump sent them.” The framing seemed a lot like this. It’s the weirdest, dumbest coalition: anti-communist commies?
  17. I did this once: for the Gideon Tech game. I didn't check the live score and just sped through the breaks. I caught up right around the last Texas drive where we didn't burn enough clock. I nearly lost my mind watching the game and I think I might be partially responsible. Never again.
  18. I incorrectly thought that the St. Louis and Blue thing was some kind of hockey reference or he’s an early jazz fan:
  19. I have to admit, it had to read that about three times before I understood it. “Underweigh” caused my brain to get stuck.
  20. The important question is, how does she pronounce pecan?
  21. Epistemology talk not going away. Come for the discussion of organizations harboring child rapists, stay for the David Hume talk.
  22. My favorite part of troll threads like this isn't that they're in the wrong forum; my favorite part is how we all know our roles so well. Tom Herman would be jealous of our alignment. Greg Davis would be jealous of our self-sabotaging but perfectly executed plays. Beautiful execution of stupidity is in some sense high art -- a kind of sad genius. Passing a Turing test on any of these threads to represent either "side" would be trivial. I think it's best to assume that we're all bots.
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