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Voluminous Banality

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  1. You're doing this wrong. Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Ole Miss, Tennessee, and Texas A&M outscored their opponents 307-32.
  2. "We don't win when we are in Texas' shadow. We've tried that for a hundred years."
  3. Highlights for aggy: Notre Dame is really, really good. Aggy defense was tremendous. Offense averaged nearly 4 yards per play. 100% efficiency in the red zone (2-for-2 with 2 FGs).
  4. He looks more comfortable in his skin than he did at aggy.
  5. Only 3 things can happen when DJ Uiageileoeolaiai holds the ball...
  6. Surly before the game: The line is way too high. Taking GT and the points all the way. After one FSU drive: This game is over. Tech fans, hide your women and children. After one Georgia Tech drive: I fucking told you!!!
  7. Does Velton Gardner play with a chip on his shoulder? Does he get the defense riled up during practice? Can we pencil him in as our short yardage and goal line back, having scored a grand total of one touchdown in his career? Is he the vibe? Until we can answer all of these in the affirmative AND he becomes a burgeoning fat ass with anger issues, let's hold off on anointing him as the next Savion Red. Make the man earn his stripes.
  8. This isn't that hard to figure out. Is it dumb? Yes, it's dumb. It was probably easier to ask parents to approve all subject material rather than wrangle in the legislature over what specific subjects need parental approval. Or possibly this is some asshole administrator's clever way of protesting or of screwing with everyone with the implementation, in which case, props to that guy.
  9. Mea culpa. I was going for brevity, but that was definitely an inexcusable omission. You'll also be interested to know that 'troglodyte' has blown up in the last 25 years. Coincidence? I think not.
  10. I love how sports message boards are bringing back classic words lost to the literarily unversed modern reader. CTJ pulling weight here.
  11. A couple of weeks ago, before Machinator's return, you might have been first with this.
  12. Savion Red is quite possibly the most overhyped, barely three-star, consensus #1414-rated recruit of all time. In a heated recruiting battle, Texas beat out Kansas, SMU, and Mississippi Valley State for his services. In two years with the Longhorns, Red totaled 131 rushing yards, more than half of which came against Texas Tech in the late 3rd and 4th quarters of a 57-7 blowout. After two seasons of ascent, Red managed to climb to 5th or 6th on the depth chart before transferring to Alabama Nevada where, reportedly, Red has been equally impressive and has been praised for his “moxie” and for “getting the defense riled up” during practice. This underwhelming list of achievements hasn’t kept half of Surly from ruing Red’s unfulfilled potential and devastating departure from the program. Even before the injuries to Baxter and Clark, these talent-evaluating cognoscenti would have gladly shipped off Jake Majors and Michael Taaffe to secure Red’s return. Taking injuries into account, they wouldn’t hesitate to throw in Hayden Conner.
  13. Many posters here have a hard time separating their strong political leanings from objective analysis. It wasn't my intention to set forth a premise on the attribution of credit for gains in net US export of petroleum across some decades. I was responding to a tweet which misrepresented data from 2017-2023 and that was the extent of my response. Reading comprehension is key and my limited analysis was entirely correct. The original tweet by Rattner was misleading and the data was badly presented. It's possible to recognize this and still give Obama credit for the recovery in US oil net exports if that's how you wish to interpret the data. Understanding the data first is a good starting point whomever you support.
  14. Correct. The dude has now shifted to, "Well, Trump doesn't get credit for the increase in net exports during his term because he did fuck all." 🤦‍♂️ The original tweet was stupid and misleading, period. That's all I'm responding to, since someone asked.
  15. Correct, it's literally the flip side which I literally just said. It's evident that you neither understand the original tweet nor anything I've posted, so this is a good place to end the exchange.
  16. I didn't miss the point of the tweet. To answer in the terms that you are using, in 3 years, Trump got us 90% of the way to becoming a net exporter of petroleum. In the next 3 years, Biden pushed us the final 10% across the line. You are right, of course, that it's not all about Trump and Biden, but this data hardly supports chest-beating over Biden's over-performance in this regard.
  17. Yes, you don't understand it. You posted a chart showing petroleum imports drastically decreasing between 2017-2020 and then decreasing at a slower rate after 2020: That corresponds to a rapid INCREASE in net exports or DECREASE in net export deficit from 2017 followed by a much SLOWER increase in net exports from 2020-2023: In other words, the chart you posted perfectly supports the statistical (non-political) point I was making. If you still don't understand it, that's okay. Have a good day.
  18. It's not bullshit. Your'e not understanding the chart. Net exports between 2017-2020 rose by approximately 9 quadrillion Btu. Between 2020-2023, they rose by approximately 1.2 quadrillion Btu. I'm not even making a political point. I'm just responding to a statistical pet peeve. It's literally statistics 101.
  19. For those like Steven Rattner who don't know how to read a chart, this is what the chart is really showing. I don't even care about the point he is trying to make, but the horrendous data presentation cannot be abided.
  20. Assuming that these numbers are accurate, net oil and petroleum exports increased under Trump by roughly 9 quadrillion Btu in the 3 years between 2017-2020 (3 quadrillion Btu per year). Under Biden, it increased by around 1.2 quadrillion Btu in the 3 years from 2020-2023 (0.4 quadrillion Btu per year). So more than 7 times the net increase annually under Trump as under Biden, which you would expect given their respective policies. Not making a political point, just a statistical one. People need to learn how to read charts better. For a New York Times contributing writer, that is either an embarrassing misinterpretation or an egregious misrepresentation of the data.
  21. Love the optimism. Biden is going to roll just as soon as he figures out the playbook.
  22. I don't disagree with you, but we're looking at it as college football fans. KFord is just using a formula weighted for competitiveness and quality. Nebraska has been anything but quality the last several years; they've been abjectly terrible. They haven't won more than 3 conference games or more than 5 games overall since 2016.
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