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  1. Downloading, looking at, trading, and creating sexual abuse material is an inherently irrational act. The ancients would correctly frame people who do it as allowing their passions to control them. Outrage and fear is a natural and healthy reaction to irrational, harmful behavior when demonstrated by others.
  2. Yes, criminality does incur a social cost and on balance I prefer to pay the costs associated with incarcerating criminals and protecting future as opposed to the social costs of serving criminals interests. This stuff always cracks me up. Oh, now society is on the hook for the upkeep of a habitual thief who is in jail? Ok, well, society was on the hook for him anyway. It’s not like a productive career got derailed. Picking up trash on the side of the road in exchange for three hots and a cot is a net win. Yes, I reject “Justice involved” and all similar attempts to center criminals— thieves, rapists, murderers, etc— instead of their victims and to frame them as passive recipients of the criminal Justice system. It’s a neat rhetorical trick that I completely refuse to engage in. No one is a character in a script that’s being written and it’s not a travesty to ascribe to people the ageny they demonstrate through their actions. I won’t play the game.
  3. See here’s the thing, someone else being an an alcoholic or having addictions isn’t affecting me. As long as it’s not spilling over and harming people who haven’t volunteered to be a part of it, I’m indifferent to it. But yes, if someone drives drunk and kills someone then I’m wholly unconcerned with giving them a second chance. And the thing is, the moral preening and saying things like “Justice involved people” instead of “criminals” is the cheapest kind of empathy. It comes at no actual cost to the people who engage in it. The chances are minuscule that an individual drunk driver who gets short probation crashes into the judge or prosecutor. But the cost to the family he kills is—everything. The judges and prosecutors who kept letting that guy go in North Carolina had no skin in the game. They weren’t going to encounter him on a subway at night. Their empathy was cheap to them, because Iryna Z and her family footed the bill. And that’s how I look at all of this stuff. This guy in Celina, if I was told— in two years, he’ll be next door to you. How would I feel? This drunk driver, his route home from favorite happy hour overlaps with your teenager’s route home from soccer practice? How do I feel? If I wouldn’t want it for me, its cheap empathy to give it to people I don’t know.
  4. I generally favor much longer sentences, not sure about life. And for sure once someone has more than one conviction. The data back me up: most crime is done by a small number of people over and over. And, mass incarceration brings with it reduced crime rates. I don’t really believe in rehabilitation. It’s entirely theoretical to me. You are either capable of punching a woman in her face for a handbag or you aren’t. You either see robbing houses as a life choice or you dont. You either want to film young kids in the shower or you don’t. I do think people generally age out of certain types crimes. I could get behind some data that had age-based released dates. The thing is I don’t give a shit about predators and criminals, I truly don’t. Mercy to them is all too often injustice to the innocent. They aren’t owed anything at all. If hear someone has a life sentence for his third robbery, it never crosses my mind to care about what he’s feeling. When I read that some guy traded kiddie porn on the internet and got 38 years in the federal pen (happened to someone I worked with briefly), I don’t even pause for a moment. I’m really glad he’s gone somewhere and I don’t have to think about what he might be up to. That, to my mind, is the point of incarceration: stashing the predators somewhere far away. It’s not retributive. I just heavily bias my own safety and well-being far, far beyond the well-being of anyone who has demonstrably violated rje social contract.
  5. Counterpoint: the feds are exactly as harsh as they need to be. I truly don’t get the desire to let people like this rehabilitate in our communities. Truly glad if they are sorry and changed; you can demonstrate that in prison.
  6. Almost no coaches got fully guaranteed contracts till the 2010s. And for that matter, almost no NFL players get fully guaranteed contracts. You put an early termination clause in that is agreed to. That’s why so many players try to front-load.
  7. Fully guaranteed contracts are relatively new. Coaches and schools were willing to forgo that in the past because it was understood both sides might want to make a change midstream. Mack’s last contract had a 3.5 million buyout that went down every year he remained at Texas. https://amp.foxsports.com/stories/college-football/texas-approves-brown-contract-extension
  8. You want us to go in together on a compact? Yeah, we can likely help with a down payment. You’re thinking what, a Civic? Corolla?
  9. (Somewhat) oddly tear gas and riot control agents are banned on the battlefield for escalation reasons but not for civilian riot control use. The U.S. and most countries use it for riot control. Not that I trust modern ICE with it, but under other admins I wouldn’t blink an eye.
  10. I did a bit of a search on this and can’t find anything but this Substack as a source and I’m frankly really skeptical. The United States does not posses or produce chemical weapons. It’s unclear what missiles the warheads would go on and what platform they’d be used with. There’s no missiles in the DHS inventory to use.
  11. We gotta do better than ChatGPT Facebook posts.
  12. Tortilla throwing was fun and cool. I was a kid at the 1995 Cotton Bowl and the tortillas and the Song Girls were deeply memorable. They should let them have a dedicated tortilla throw time. Every step to suck the uniqueness and fun from CFB is bad.
  13. Self-licking ice cream cone?
  14. I mean, we will see how long this lasts and what it means long term. I see a bubble that will explode. A lot of athletic departments would be distressed assets if state institutions weren’t ultimately on the hook here. Its like NIL, which was sold as “let the kids do car commercials but morphed into ‘pay the backup TE 300 dollars directly.” I think it’s all headed for a crash landing. But maybe Saudi PE is the answer, PE works everywhere!
  15. Yes. At this point, if you don’t have to fire your corch you should wait. Cignetti came up from the FCS ranks. But that worked because it was IU.
  16. Counterpoint: The revenue comes from people buying tickets and making donations and those costs are spiraling to where bringing up the next generation in the stands is cost-prohibitive to families on a reasonable budget.
  17. My post was more tongue in cheek about how casually college FB fans talk about eyewatering amounts of money that should lead to failed corches leaving generational wealth.
  18. 20 million here, 20 million there….pretry soon you’re talking real money.
  19. I’m beginning to think that contracts need to require HCs retain an HC and DC who call plays from the box. It seems that it’s nearly always lackluster when the HC wants to retain that. HCs need to do game management and strategy, the plays need to be called from upstairs. And an unwillingness to allow that flags that someone may not be HC ready.
  20. ““Not everybody’s the perfect person in the world. I mean everyone kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me, whatever.”— Tyrelle Pryor and RFK Jr, probably.
  21. Fuck the media. “No, you can’t write “excrement.” That would be unseemly.”
  22. SEC scheduling has been weird for a long time, trying to preserve historic rivalries and every-year non-con games. We’ve also never been to Lexington. LSU-UGA only played twice in the regular season since 2009. Last win in BR was 1994, last game was in 1995 in CS (a win for A&M) until the 2011 Cotton Bowl.
  23. What? A&M beat LSU five in a row in the 90s before the series went on hiatus till 2012.
  24. This summer the Florida system in general got a court decision allowing schools to reach beyond that fee and redirect other student-derived fees to athletics. Texas as a state is not better, this is just an indicator of where the whole thing has gone off the rails for most schools.
  25. Plot twist: The poop video was meant to be a hype video and the people getting shat on by DJT are his voters.
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