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3X3 is dumb as hell and the rules about who can play mean that any American serious about basketball will ignore the game entirely. It’s not that it’s made up so much as it is a recreational version of the real thing, the game you play when you have to share a public court or gym, or the game you play in a driveway or behind a church. It’s like making flag football with an all-time quarterback an official sport. So stupid.
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Well, but there are levels and types of corruption going on, and the level of corruption possible in authoritarian states is very different than what’s possible in open societies. It’s not that USA Swimming (which Lord knows has had some awful issues) is full of more moral and righteous people, it’s that in open societies there are overlapping circles of accountability and responsibility. USA Swimming needs parents to put their kids in pools and does not want to become known as a place where you dope or have no chance of winning. There is a free press in the U.S. that will always be interested in blowing open a scandal. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency is a non-profit and if it finds itself embroiled in a scandal it will be replaced. Disputes are settled by independent arbitrators that make their living by neutrally adjudicating the facts of a case. Above all that is the rule of law that will enforce criminal sanctions for illegal drugs, corrupt conduct, and mistreatment of athletes. None of the organizations or individuals are within state structures. The end result is again— a situation where people can and do try to cheat the systems, and where people within them can be bought or corrupted— but sustained, systemic, long-term cheating and corruption will be outed and consequences enforced. In the PRC, none of these entities exist outside the control of the CCP and they ultimately exist for the benefit and aims of the CCP. The CCP cares mostly about winning medals and has become content with the barest fig leaf of integrity and fair play to hide behind, just like the USSR, or East Germany, and later Russia. Absolutely none of the external brakes and checks and balances exist— there are no independent organizations, there is no free press, there is no rule of law, and the party will put you in a swimming program if it wants to.
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I’d rather them bring back tug of war than watch 3x3, I have no idea WTF they were thinking.
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Unreal that we only had one men’s individual win. Time to lock in on LA and defend the home pool. That said, Marchand was a great story and incredibly fun to watch.
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That’s true but also ketchup is by far my least used condiment. I rarely make fries and I trained my kids not to eat it on grilled burgers. So it’s mostly for if company comes over for burgers or the rare occasion we fry up some potatoes. Leaving it on a table in a diner is different than trying to store it and hope for the best right up to the expiry date. I can’t remember the last time we used a full bottle.
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I put all of that save the maple in the fridge. I also keep a stick of butter under a covered butter plate so there’s some soft when I want it. We make pancakes pretty often and we get the real stuff in smaller jars, I’ve never had mold on the maple syrup jar or syrup. I have space and it’s not going to hurt that stuff.
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International sports across the board are completely compromised and corrupt. Nations like Russia, PRC, Qatar, Saudi, etc use sports washing as hosts and competitors to project the image they want as hosts and as competitors. It’s unreal that we keep debating this over decades. I mean, the Russians hacked into labs to change doping results, and the PRC just says “trust us.” Despite the fact that the U.S. is quite jingoistic about medals, we are actually playing from behind in a lot of ways. We do not have a ministry of sport and all of our governing bodies are independent and survive on dues and sponsorships. While there can be doping by individual athletes or even in programs, it’s impossible to run a state-sponsored scheme and coverup like the commies have done and will always done.
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The PRC keeps having dozens of athletes pop hot for banned substances and each time it’s because of “contaminated food” in a hotel or McDonalds or whatever. Then a ChiCom lab confirms the theory. They are absolutely doped to the gills and it’s part of a systematic state-sponsored program of the sort that basically every authoritarian Communist nation runs. It’s a total joke and the WADA’s statements are likely drafted in Beijing. If you follow the language used by the CCP across the board, it’s unmistakeable.
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There’s a work picnic today so I’m rolling with a South Texas botana (well, I made two platters). Guacamole goes on last and later so it doesn’t get warm and soggy up the chips on the way over.
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ArnieTex, mentioned above, is left. I adapt his recipes pretty often. I keep coming back to this one: 5-6 Roma tomatoes 5 Serranos and 5 jalepenos 3-4 Garlic cloves 1/2 white onion Bunch of cilantro 2 chipotles in adobo and some of the liquid Salt, pepper to taste If you have time char up the fresh vegetables and garlic on a grill or a hot pan. Blend together in a food processor with the chipotles and liquid. If you want to adjust the consistency you can use some good canned crushed tomatoes. And of course you can fiddle with the amount of peppers, I usually do about 10 mixed Serranos or jalepenos and it’s a bit spicer than average. Keep the chipotles and the liquid cause it gives it a great color and smoky flavor.
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Phelps’ accomplishments say more about Phelps than anything else and there’s a reason he stands alone. Just the distances are insane, in 2008 in Beijing he got world records at the 100, 200, and 400 m distances. The unanimous pre-Phelps GOAT, Mark Spitz, won his gold medals at the 100-200 meter distances, which is normal and human. Even at the high school level you will almost never find someone able to win across the range Phelps did, because almost no one has the physical or training capacity to do what are very different athletic feats in terms of strength, explosiveness, technique, and endurance. You might switch over a career but never for a single season. I do wish track would allow a format where people could try and do the 200, 400, 800, plus relays and maybe a jump or the hurdles, you’d get people like Carl Lewis maybe once in 100 years who could do that, too.
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I mean, you’ve cherry picked two examples here that you have more familiarity with which is kind of my point that sports are different and the athletes decide what and how to measure. From the outside every sport can be made “better” by people who don’t do it seriously and weren’t part of developing it. I can for sure see arguments that freestyle wrestling with leg holds is really a “better” contest than the Greco-Roman style where you can’t hold below the waist; I can also see how that handicap makes Greco-Roman a differently challenging discipline even if you can get people highly capable and elite in both. The fact is that wrestlers and the people who really like wrestling want to have both remain different disciplines and that’s cool. I promise you FINA did make the strokes with a goal to make more medals. There’s actually a fairly good analogy with wrestling in that some of the strokes diverged when different cultures with different ways of doing it came into contact with each other and the athletes found it more interesting to try their skills at both styles than just go with the one that prevailed. Like how freestyle wrestling developed from the Anglo-American catch style as opposed to the continental and Mediterranean style.
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I’d watch a “who can get farthest underwater” for sure, we used to do that as lifeguards and as part of practice. Combo of speed and lung capacity. It could be an event but isn’t. Just how these things go.
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Eh, all sports are different and cool and develop in their own way. They develop for the athletes competing, mostly, because that’s the ways the athletes challenge themselves. In your own example, why do we have a long jump and triple jump, when you can just get up a head of steam and launch your ass into a sandpit as far as you can? Do we really need four projectile throwing events, couldn’t we stick with OG javelin and discus? Should fencing be just one type of sword fight instead of foil, sabre epee? Why have the constrained Greco-Roman style of wrestling when we could just do freestyle. For that matter, why have different combat sports at all, the Greeks had pankration and we have MMA, so just do an ass-kicking contest.
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We need to go out and rebound a few more Russian fuckers up soon so we have some more chips to play with. Everytime we do this it’s always Russia sending us journalists and artists and peace protesters while we send them some guy named “Vadim the Disembowler.”
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
956 Worldwide replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
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I think that the chances of Iran allowing their retaliation to be direct and lead to war are quite low. One of the salutary effects of these types of things is to hammer home to Iran and the proxies it protects just how shitty Iran is at war and security. It’s clear that Iran is woefully compromised by Mossad intelligence and very likely that it can’t even minimally protect its airspace. The recent strikes on Yemen’s ports are in any case a powerful reminder of Israel’s long range strike capability is, regardless of how a munition got delivered to the window of the Ayatollah’s most honored guest. The Iranian regime is not irrational or suicidal. One of the primary benefits of using the Houthis and Hamas and Hezbollah against Israel is to direct these exquisite capabilities against targets that are invulnerable to them because they are worthless. These little petty rulers of wastelands have nothing of value to attack, just an endless supply of angry young men ready to replace the last angry young man. But Tehran has a lot to protect indeed, like nuclear sites and weapons manufacturing facilities and infrastructure and their own hides. It is not lost on them that they are going to come out very, very badly in an actual and not proxy war against Israel, although little reminders like this do help the bolder among them to ponder things out. Now, they may absolutely get to the point where they’re willing to accept a lot more Lebanese dying. But how is Hezbollah now feeling about the bully who said has their back? I’d expect some symbolic stuff that’s designed to fail and then for Iran to go back to barking.
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I always hate that, when me and the boys tell everyone how awesome and glorious it is to be a marty felled in battle with the infidels and the the infidels agree with me.
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F-15 discourse potentially becoming F-35 discourse. I hope so, very very much; nothing quite so giddy as S300s not doing shit while a high value target gets smoked by a single munition delivered through his window.
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More and more indicators that the hit on Hamas’ leader was carried out by an F-35 although we will likely not get full confirmation anytime soon. A reminder that Iran has invested heavily in air defense and operates S-300s. My penis can only get so erect that our gear can be this lethal and unstoppable against a hugely high value target and a nation that’s invested in stopping us.
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No, I will bet lots and lots of money that this is either Russia or Iran. It’s not hippies.
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There’s an embedded assumption here in labeling them “unproductive” that Iran and the protest leaders are interested in helping Palestinians.
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