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    Yes.
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    It looks genuinely inadvertent. Particularly since they don’t have him custody yet.
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    Sounds like he was already indicted in a sealed indictment that some EDVA AUSA just accidentally leaked.
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    I wouldn’t mind if they did a prisoner’s dilemma deal but yeah, just letting one person steal the money was stupid the first time.
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    This isn’t even a negative for the MAGA crowd. They crowd would prefer to just explicitly bar blacks from voting. If anything just making it harder for HBCU students to vote is too subtle.
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    About 5 years more to catch Gmail.
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    Your kids are definitely the weird ones here. And kudos to you for that because listening to the same shit over and over and over again is a fucking beating.
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    I don’t think Alec blabbed to the wrong person. I think Alec very much wanted the David’s to flip the vote if they had the means to.
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    Dan had the immunity necklace. Instead of Dan just totally wasting the idol, it would’ve been funnier if Angelina had more votes than John and Dan sent John home by playing it.
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    There were plans for sequels but the McConaughnessaince killed that I think. I imagine it’d be tough to get Haller into the TV show because whatever studio made Lincoln Lawyer probably still has the rights to Haller, so they’d have to sign off.
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    Season 1 is fine but it’s easily the worst season
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    Wasn’t necessarily a great tribal council during the pre-vote potion but that was an all-timer vote.
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    While I would agree that the Constitution does not explicitly state the Speaker must be a member, it's pretty heavily implied. It was so obvious to all involved that the Speaker be a member that I don't think it crossed anyone's minds that it would actually need to be said. The office was derived from the House of Commons, which had been presided over by a Speaker of the House for 400 or so years by then and who had always been a member, as well as the Virginia House of Burgesses and then House of Delegates, which had speakers whom had always been elected members. The first Congress, of which the author of Article I, Section 5 was a member, adopted rules that clearly assumed the Speaker to be a member as they lay out situations in which the speaker would or would not vote, a power only held by House members.
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    It was mostly enjoyable for the music and Malek did a good job but as a film, it was pretty bad.
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    I don’t get it either. It’s certainly a notable news event but it’s hard to see what it could have to do with this thread.
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    Success rate isn't a measure of explosiveness. It's actually the opposite. It's a measure of the percentage of time a team gained at least 50% of yards to go on 1st down, at least 70% of yards to go on 2nd down, and at least 100% of yards to go on 3rd and 4th downs. So a team that gains 5 yards on 1st, 4 yards on 2nd, and 1 yard on 3rd will have a higher success rate than a team who throws incomplete on 1st and 2nd and then for 20 yards on 3rd.
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    So for the Texas Tech game for example, Texas had an expected turnover margin of 1.5, with the other 1.5 attributed to luck.
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    His system doesn't say that turnovers are luck. His system says that creating turnover opportunities is skill (as measured by fumbles forced and passes defensed) but whether you actually turn those opportunities into turnovers is largely luck. According to his numbers, teams will generally revert to the mean of recovering 50% of fumbles forced and 22% of passes defensed. So a team who has 4 forced fumbles and 18 passes defensed is treated the same (as an expected 6 turnovers), whether those opportunities actually resulted in zero turnovers or 22 turnovers.
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    The shit stains at Empower Texans tried to primary Bonnen (recruited a primary opponent and sank six figures into his campaign) so I'm cautiously optimistic Bonnen won't be terrible.
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    All the more reason to get rid of the Senate. And I'm all for increasing the size of the house significantly.
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    I wouldn’t say nearly everything or even necessarily most things but certainly many things.
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    How about we let property use issues be decided at the level of government closest to those affected by them?
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    Either get rid of the Senate or establish a maximum population size for states. At the 1790 Census, Virginia had 12.5 times many people as Delaware. As of the 2010 Census, California was 66 times larger than Wyoming.
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    It'll be interesting to see what happens with school vouchers. Government funding of parochial schools is Patrick's wet dream. It's an issue that puts rural state reps in a tough spot because the school districts in their districts strongly oppose it but their evangelical constituents strongly support it. Straus protected rural House R's from having to vote on it last time around. It was mainly being pushed for by suburban Republicans but they got pretty wiped out last week.
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    I think looking at week to week movement is silly in computer rankings. One of their major benefits relative to human polls is they don’t simply move teams up and down based on the prior week’s games. For example, a human poll gives LSU a major boost for beating #8 Miami and #7 Auburn over the first three weeks of the season and then just moves LSU up or down based on their performance week to week, without ever really looking back and reconsidering the value of those wins over what turned out to be fairly mediocre teams.

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