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  1. I do think Elon is dumb on a lot of things, but I think he understands this. He’s signaling to his idiot base that he’s going to “unwoke” Grok in a way they understand
  2. Elon is really mad at Grok because of Catturd2 and typing that sentence makes me want to go back in time to make sure the Sea People defeat the Pharaoh so we can avoid this.
  3. He just wants grok to remove all references to his dysfunctional penile implant.
  4. Kinda curious about the missing information from the entire corpus of human knowledge that Elon has. Is it really missing then? I guess its like the Elron corollary to Schroedinger’s cat in that its unknown until Elron voices it.
  5. He argues around it but never quite gets there: Iran is unlikely to use a nuclear weapon against Israel, which would guarantee likely nuclear response. But, a nuclear-armed Iran would absolutely seek to rebuild its Shia militias and proxies in the region to pursue its revisionist aims. And with its own nuclear shield, it would be basically immune from direct retaliation and adversaries dealing with its hybrid and proxy tactics would be restrained to countering those entities and responding within the gray zone. Iran would also have a free hand to intervene conventionally in the region. Basically, the Kremlin playbook. And that also explains why other Muslim states are willing to sit this out with some quiet support to Israel. With Iran’s proxies aside from the Houthis basically defanged, this is the window to make them an un-problem for a while.
  6. Investing all my savings to build section 8 housing 200 miles outside of Cheyenne.
  7. He was on Real World vs. Road Rules when I was in high school and he is dogshit. He may be right or wrong on lone items but for anyone with more than a lone BB rattling around their dome, it’s usually a safe bet to take the opposite of his stance absent Independent knowledge and reasoning.
  8. Theo Von is forty-five years old and once told the LSU student newspaper he was opposed to inter-racial dating but yeah let me hear his thoughts on geopolitics.
  9. Me deboarding a plane: Efficient. Athletic, almost graceful, economy of effort as I remove my carryon and continue down the aisle in one smooth motion. Ready to move when my time comes. All other people: Bumbling clods. Stupidly shuffling their items, pulling bags onto their own heads. Halfwits who cannot understand when it is their turn. Not ready for the jet age.
  10. Furiously using ChatGPT so I’ll get dumber because honestly that seems like the way to survive the 2020s.
  11. Just moving those bombers can be signaling. I don’t think there’s been a final decision yet but there is the intent of showing that one can be made anytime.
  12. Imagine all the things that have to go wrong to be capable of feeling let down by Tulsi Gabbard.
  13. I think there’s plenty of room for ambiguity and skepticism on this but “I can’t believe Tulsi might lie to us all” is a bonkers take.
  14. I am disturbed at this thread. People are saying bless you for coughs? “Get untracked” like it is a good thing? Are you all mingling too much with the deltas and epsilons?
  15. Its been a tough campaign but I have brought down Ana de Armas’ defenses, paving the way for some large scale operations in her territory.
  16. Yeah, the US would be happy to have a free, secular, and stable Iran. But you run into a similar thing to the debaathification problem in that any semblance of civil society or technocratic ability has been concentrated in the clerical-military repression apparatus. There’s no bench or shadow opposition to step in and do it.
  17. Watched this last night. There is no way Gym didn’t know something was up. What finally got the OSU doc was when he started treating regular students. With no scholarships on the line, they complained.
  18. I think some of it is where the women choose to play (and their parents). Bluntly: for years the face of women’s basketball has been psychopaths like Summit or Mulkey, the game is “physical,” and the fan base heavily lesbian. Without judgment, you are only appealing to a small slice of potential players. I think a lot of athletic and competitive girls did get steered into volleyball or tennis. Look, Sharapova was 6’2 of fast-twitch muscle and coordination, don’t tell me she couldn’t have destroyed on the court. Venus Williams could have been the best PG of all time. Its like when people ask where the next great American heavyweight is. He’s an all-pro DE for the Cleveland Browns. The previous generation’s CC was trying to win Wimbledon. Players in the pipeline can change the image and grow the game. But the league has to get shit together. Eye-raking? Come on, that’s not physical or hard-nosed basketball. That’s some catty, talentless bullshit. Most women and girls are not here for that stuff.
  19. Agree, with the key difference being that chippy and aggressive hockey is a fantastic product that people want to watch. Put guys in pads and skates, let them hammer each other and drop gloves and you have gold. But this is still basketball. You can’t play it like hockey. Tall women plodding around court and shoving each other below the rim is a snooze. It would be if men were playing that way. The WNBA old guard has a curious conception, against all evidence, that they always had a great product and now CC is getting everyone to notice that. No. CC is creating a new great product for them. Time to get on board.
  20. Completely disagree, and I’ll even go so far as to say CC needs closer reffing like the NBA does for its stars. People turn into the NBA to see Steph Curry hit dimes from the logo or to watch Jordan make defenders look stupid. Not to watch them get knocked around. Trotting out a bunch of big girls to bruise each other is shit basketball and completely uninteresting. Watching CC run circles around the bruisers is appointment viewing. Just about anyone can claw someone’s eyes and call it defense. The Bad Boy Pistons these ladies are not.
  21. Ronda Rousey had incredible cultural influence for about a year including some deeply stupid speculation about her potential to fight men. Before CC she was one of the few woman athletes capable of getting general men sports fans interested and talking about her or tuning in just to watch her. CC, if the league can keep her healthy, has the biggest potential.
  22. I honestly think this is an act. The dude has 12 NCs and 3 gold medals. I bet he makes more than a top WNBA coach at UCONN. He’s a giant a-hole but you can’t accuse him of not knowing women’s basketball. He has to go recruit a bunch of players who are jealous of CC and is playing to his audience by being a hater.
  23. Simone Biles is a megastar and cultural phenom. Plenty of little girls dressing up like her for Halloween. Serena, Caitlin, Simone are the contenders. I agree that Kournikova was a cultural fixture but not because of her game. Livvy Dunne is kind of an equivalent.
  24. Honestly the more I think about it the more I wish I had something like this to pull out for my wife at key moments. Not sure if a review from her or an ex would be more “effective” at escalation.
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