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  1. Welch was extremely competent, well-liked, and high-character. It’s a big loss and I’m furious about this whole bullshit.
  2. And taught them how to lay out a camp so not everyone would get dysentery and diphtheria. Someone should do a big pop history of the marching camp and its effect on fighting power from the Romans to modern day.
  3. Also fun fact: Von Steuben was at the siege of Prague during the war of the Austrian Succession and there is still a Prussian cannonball lodged in the wall of the oldest church still extant (St. Martin). Photo my own, you can barely make it out next to the window on the right.
  4. Von Steuben and while he is sadly not taught, I would not call his contributions small. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_von_Steuben
  5. America’s Ground Proximity Warning is screaming at us.
  6. Chosen deliberately to encompass all forms of 45-47 falsity that extend beyond just lying (plenty of that too of course).
  7. There is really nothing the CR can say that is more sacrilegious than what CK’s fans are doing at the moment.
  8. I always hate it when through some weird set of incidents a dismembered corpse ends up in the trunk of a car I abandoned. Really awkward.
  9. Grew up in a Tech household before going to A&M and have some great memories of this game in person from both sides. I would really like it to come back as an individual. It’s a hard one (although playoffs ease some concerns) to justify on a regular basis for A&M. The first couple will get big attention but after that it’s a regional rivalry that is easy for the national networks to pre-empt. You get little credit for beating Tech but losing is a problem. And Tech will always be dangerous in that game. If you’re on the cusp of an at large bid you’d rather have an early season loss to a helmet school than Tech in most cases. You’re not getting a recruiting boost, you’re not really satisfying nation-wide alums by going to Lubbock and that market. This is not a new problem for Tech. They used to have to schedule one season matches against name schools under Spike because the road trip to Lubbock wasn’t worth the squeeze. Like I said, I do wish it would come back but it’s hard to see the upside in the cutthroat environment. I’d like to see one home-home series scheduled at least though.
  10. I won’t be surprised if it’s much worse than the spread. Small chance that this is a rally the troops, save Billy effort but more likely I think the team has given up.
  11. Here’s something every media conglomerate can (should) do but won’t: Boycott the admin entirely. No press conferences. No press pools. No backgrounders. No running quotes or seeking quotes. Nothing at all, let them try to use only social and Fox. Report on what they do: “Today POTUS signed an executive order order that does X.” “Today POTUS met with world leader Y to discuss X.” Run quotes from independent analysts and others, but absolutely zero platforming of the admin at all levels. “We have an obligation to report the news openly and truthfully. Accordingly, we will not carry quotes or give space to officials that habitually tell untruths and seek to silence critical coverage. We will continue to report and analyze the actions of this administration but we will not allow ourselves to be a venue for public manipulation.”
  12. Enchubben, can you provide a plausible reading of how Michelle Obama (First Lady) and Sheila Jackson Lee (Elected Rep) were “affirmative action picks?” What’s a good faith interpretation of that?
  13. They’ve worn that combo and look fairly often the past few years. UM is one that does a lot more experimentation than traditional blue bloods often do, including some surprisingly shitty/trendy alts over the years.
  14. Kimmel’s conditions should be: 1. No apology from him. 2. Apology from Disney to his viewers and Americans for caving to political pressure. Maybe also a contribution to a trans youth support group or something. If he wants to go really hard in the paint. But fuck any apologies. On 1A go scorched earth.
  15. Sinclair’s ABC stations are going to air a Charlie Kirk special on Friday in place of Kimmel, LOL everything is SO fucked. Oh and they are begging Daddy to do more censorship.
  16. Reminder that the first real indicator of where Russia was going (their media market in the 1990s was free-wheeling and actually excellent in a lot of places) was when the Kremlin made a show about puppets stop using a puppet of him they didn’t like. Then in 2001 they forced a sale of the network to Gazprom and then in 2002 just killed the show. There was also a blowup over a program that upset the Kremlin about some bombings of apartments blamed on Chechens.
  17. Viktor Orbanization of America. This stuff isn’t disciplined enough to be real fascism.
  18. Dogshit AI rendering too. Makes me ragey. I had seen the “change my mind” guy in memes but didn’t realize it was CK till after the murder.
  19. Far more interested in Tech-Utah than Illinois-Indiana. I don’t trust Bielema and Indiana just can’t stack up against Oregon and PSU. In a league with Big XII parity coaching carries the day and I really like those two staffs.
  20. Well, it could compliment them too with a bit of motion-sensor tech and some actual CK recordings.
  21. Any league is going to take a dimmer view of screwing up rule implementation than they do missed calls. There’s a missed call on almost any play in a football game but not knowing or applying the rule book in a clear cut situation is much bigger screwup. Missing an offensive holding call sucks but happens; stepping off five yards and not ten on the call is inexcusable.
  22. Diego says it’s his last year.
  23. Dabo doing some solid ranting and raving at the presser today.
  24. No, and earlier in thread I said that I expected this would be a disturbed and angry person more than a political person. I am speaking more to the jarring disconnect I get reading these lucid and matter of fact texts from someone who etched internet memes onto shell casings and murdered a podcaster in public. I guess I was expecting more manic manifesto than “why I’m running late for dinner.” Anyway it must be an incredible time to be schizo in America given where we are with baseline reality.
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