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sidis

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  1. Good luck, Maalik. Associating yourself with Manny Diaz is inherently a questionable call but I wish you the best.
  2. Johannes Bach.
  3. it really is. uga and bama will absolutely be able to keep up and whoever said that is wrong. any team with a dedicated fanbase and significant enough sized alumni group that is committed to football success is going to benefit and people in alabama and georgia would rather the dawgs/tide win than eat every day of the week. however, anyone questioning if texas has benefited from it needs only to look at the 2022 class coming off a 5-7 season and a loss to kansas in sark's first year. in december and february, we signed the 5th ranked class in the nation and arguably the best oline class in the nation (at the same time that some folks here got a $50K per olineman salary mechanism going)...along with getting the top qb transfer to come from ohio state. then, after going a disappointing 8-5 in 2022, we signed the number 3 class in the nation. the fruits of that are just now beginning to be realized.
  4. i would be happy to sentimentally recall how you and mrs. fuck did not have any deductible obligations when your kid was born so you spent it at guitar center instead every time i pick it up to play as well.
  5. lol, jimmy, this is genuinely akin to someone wandering into the guitar pron thread and saying "so hey guys, what's your take on this whole new thing with guitars plugging in...what do you guys think the impact of this sound like chuck berry is going to be?" yes, nil has been officially weaponized in an organized fashion and the entrenched superpowers of college football are benefiting greatly. the disparity between the haves and have nots in their recruiting and transfer hauls is getting significantly greater. steve sarkisian specifically has been a significant beneficiary of the timing of this change. but not all blue bloods have equally weaponized it in the same fashion for various reasons...
  6. looks like you're out of room and need to unload that goldtop. i could do you the favor.
  7. taylor hamm says "whaaaa?"
  8. Nice memory. Strong’s first class. Not memorable years.
  9. I can’t think of a single Longhorn from Jasper. Only guy I can think of that’s even close was Anthony Byerly from Newton back in the 80’s. Can anyone remind me if I’m forgetting someone?
  10. I have over 60 of them and added more than thirty more of them but a little crushed gravel is apparently an issue.
  11. okay, we've narrowed down what you really want to discuss...that one of your pet libertarian utopian enabling "disruptive technologies" cryptocurrency (like tax free gold bartering) is being purposefully stifled by established banks and the u.s. government. what specific action are you referring to? if anything, the crypto sector is not regulated enough as evidenced by the number of scams and unbelievably reckless behavior that has festered in the marketplace...$7.8 billion lost in 2022 alone. ftx, etc... and its failure in the marketplace is largely derived from its perception resulting from all the shenanigans. imo, the shitty market participants are largely to blame, not institutional burying of it through rent seeking. i can transact things in btc and can buy all of it i want in the marketplace if i want to.
  12. i genuinely cannot tell if your question is a conversation starter regarding the government's role in fostering things that aren't economically rational in a commercial sense in their early development but have potentially substantial positive externalities...or if you are just using this as a springboard to bitch about regulation. as someone who is currently dealing with city bureaucracy just to i can finish some god damned fucking landscaping adjustments to my property, you are catching me in a particular anti-regulatory mood but if you are implying that letting the marketplace dictate the direction of major areas of critical society infrastructure without regulatory guardrails, you're acting like an insane person that just waves their hands when trains carrying toxic chemicals completely destroy entire towns in ohio or chemical plants in east houston explode or fedex and swa planes nearly collide on the runway at austin bergstrom because you didn't get directly affected. if you are asking more of the former, like most everything in life, it is a balance. is it possible to overreach, of course. if there are governmental mechanisms of exclusion from certain private parties pursuing a potentially disruptive technology are weaponized because of economic rent seeking behavior from established market participants (or others for whatever motivation) leveraging its power through the political process, that is super bad. but that doesn't mean that some upstart group of folks that are willing to deploy some experimental shit that is potentially dangerous to unsuspecting members of society (driving on i-35 next to a dipshit unwittingly beta testing his tesla's autopilot bullshit in traffic) should be able to operate with impunity or else that is also super bad.
  13. for reference, my pix/vid on the previous page from u2 are row "18." (aka 6)
  14. you're right on the edge. you won't be able to see all the way up but not completely shut out. people that unknowingly by 25 or higher in the 100s get there and are so pissed (rightfully). you can't see shit. i cannot imagine how fucking trippy that will be with phish stuff. there will be some freak outs.
  15. good couple of hours for the safety room today...
  16. what row?
  17. Congratulations, Celery Man. Very happy for you. Hope all is going well so far...
  18. watching usc games likely would not have aided your assessment of any individual player. I am fairly certain that usc did not force a single punt all year.
  19. Hook’Em Horns! way to go volleyball. Fucking bitchslapped corn.
  20. I think calling for an upset in which the team you picked is losing by 53 points in the third equals multiple losses.
  21. This shit is not fair. Just run a continuous clock.
  22. America’s favorite team gets a critical 3 today to create a little room from relegation given they have spurs and city in the next two.
  23. very neat.
  24. wish maalik the best and thank him for his efforts against houston, byu, and the first half of kstate. i predict he is going to be successful at his next stop.
  25. huh, i guess since north shore just forfeited a bunch of championships and state title appearances, the chaps get to claim a few more bama style?
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