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  1. You can just ChatGPT the instructions for what order they should land or takeoff or whatever.
  2. Planes are really big and when you sit in them it barely feels like you’re moving, they aren’t going that fast. They have the whole sky up there too. It’s super easy not to crash, you just watch them on the screen and remind them to be careful lol.
  3. The Turks were already on Team Adam’s, now they have discovered his Desi successor’s criticism of Ataturk. NYC now on track to become the target of Timurid expansion and a new Mughal Empire.
  4. The wrong Cuomo ran.
  5. I think just normal Canadian nonsense. They have issues all the time.
  6. Just a live action Little Mermaid reboot and the same reaction to the lead character casting change.
  7. What if I told you that Mamdani was just a DeBlasio reboot with some updated SFX and a modern diverse cast?
  8. I ran some probabilities for the final stretch through the ESPN predictor. I don’t love FPI but it’s the easiest place to see the different probabilities per game. I didn’t calculate all permutations. Just the more likely, which as you can see— “more likely” is a relative term. Most likely UT scenario: 1L (UGA), 28% UT undefeated or 1L (A&M) are at 20 and 21% UT 2L (UGA, A&M): 21% Most likely for Ole Miss is undefeated, 55% Most likely for Alabama is undefeated, 46% Most likely for UGA is undefeated, 38 % UGA 1L (UT), 26% UGA 1L (MSU), 10% Georgia 2L (UT, MSU) 7% A&M undefeated, 1L, or 2L are all between 20-21%
  9. This is the best sub-plot of 2025. After taking passenger rail to NYC to go on The View to stump for affordable healthcare; MTG takes time to honor the remarkable legacy of former Speaker Pelosi. Despite political differences, Pelosi was an effective leader and inspiring woman who worked to make America better. She is running for the 1996 GOP presidential nomination. The secret shapeshifting cabal accidentally removed the Y2K patch when they sent out an operating system update.
  10. Updates for 2025: Tex convinced Tammy to form a polycule with Bette after intense discussions of the power dynamics at play. Tammy wants to bring in Corey formally, previously they have only played after meeting him at the medicinal insecticide dispenser. Fiona is trying to pay tuition via OnlyAnts. Paw-Paw is a subscriber, and also sends SS money to AI enabled sex chatbots. Édouard runs a Michelen-starred haute fusion barbecue food truck. Joe Bob is lieutenant governor and working to ban the teaching of non-American languages.
  11. YMMV. In highly inflected languages (Slavic and I assume Latin to some degree), correctly gendering nouns will impact not only the noun, but also possible the conjugation of the verb, AND the correct declension of the nouns including direct and indirect objects. Messing it up means your speech might range from “mildly confusing” to “complete gibberish” to “different meaning.” Fluent speakers will also use gender to stand in for pronouns and even nouns— you can construct a sentence where there are no nouns or pronouns as a subject, the gendered verbs imply them. So comprehension will suffer. Not a direct comparison but the structure of gender/declension/conjugation in inflected languages does the work of word order in English. Imagine completely mixing up the order of subject, verb, direct object, indirect object and producing an understandable thought.
  12. New CFP selection idea: at the end of the year feed all the results and analytics into AI and run every permutation of every possible FBS schedule for every team 200,000 times. The 12 teams with the most simulated wins are in. I’m workshopping some ideas where we just eliminate the regular season entirely. Replace the games on TV-with curated AI-video matchups that are representative of the simulations. Drastically cut travel and event costs but still demand lucrative media rights. This is how disrupters think.
  13. The champions will be in. It’s written in the rules, the five highest conference champions ranked by CFP get in. I suppose there’s a hypothetical world where a Big Ten or SEC champ falls past two G5 champs in rankings but not this year. When I said the CCG winner gets a boost, I mean in seeding vice non CCG winners who might have equal or one more loss. Should have been clearer on that. The thing about SOS is how heavily it’s hypothetical. “If this 3 loss team with a 10 SOS had the schedule of a 2 loss team with the 17 SOS, the records would be flipped.” No one knows that. Its all just vibes. It didn’t happen. The committee will just see teams with decently similar schedules and different records.
  14. A couple of things won’t happen: 1. One conference isn’t getting half the slots. The SEC isn’t going to get six in almost any scenario. At that point you’re leaving out either the second place Big Ten team, a two loss Notre Dame, or a Big XII runner up in favor of a sixth SEC team. 2. Two 11-1 SEC teams aren’t getting bumped for conference mates with worse overall records. MAYBE one if something happened like looking completely overmatched in a loss and another team played lights out in the CCG. The CCG winner will almost certainly get a boost and will be in. The loser, if it takes them to two losses and not 3, and especially if they play well in the CCG. And they will figure out some reason to bump one or maybe two of the remaining SEC teams. The final outcome will be tied heavily to who advances to the CCG and the winner will get credit (relatively) and the loser (relatively) not get heavily punished. Being a blue blood won’t play a role. The committee last year elevated SMU over a 9-3 Bama with better wins and a tougher slate. Pretty good data point that they aren’t thinking about ratings or prestige. SOS/SOR will be talked about but message boards overindex this stuff and tend to overstate perceived differences in the extreme. The committee might forgive an extra loss for a team if the difference in SOS is something like 25 or 30 spots. If it’s two SEC teams with SOS at like 10 and 15, they take the better record absent something like a really bad H2H loss. SOS/SOR aren’t scientific and a gap of 5-10 spots contains a lot of noise and subjectivity. The last thing is that while “good” OOC losses might not be punished, that doesn’t mean they will be credited as a good win or even a regular win. Two very different things. At best the loss is memory holed.
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