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  1. I’m not sure that’s a reason for hope-severe sprains can take longer to heal than smaller breaks.
  2. I was trying to rein myself in, because this is a good topic for discussion and there's probably five other ongoing threads that would make a better home for it, but just to quickly address your post, I'm using church attendance in the same overall bucket as any social group as described in Puttnam's "Bowling Alone". It's not that they are religious, it's that it's a community not purely based on socioeconomic traits and encourages mixing of different personalities, political preferences, and there's good scholarship that the community takes the edge off extremist beliefs. FWIW, the Enlightenment had to reckon with your concern about faith versus secular values, and that tension heavily influenced the founding fathers. I think Jefferson would say that religion doesn't open the mind to falsehood, but that many professed believers who's minds are already open to conspiracies and fantasy are more forgiving of the mystical as an explanation for things they can't comprehend. Taking it back to social media, the voter who believes that Jesus saved Trump from assassination no longer has a neighbor or fellow congregant who gently dissuades him; instead he's found a group on Facebook or X that is reinforcing his beliefs. What should be really scary is that these people are fundamentally lonely, and are going to be the very first community emotionally dependent on an AI that is too novel and unregulated to have much sense of what comes next.
  3. Adding to this, the Sark offense appears to really rely on satisfactory blocking at the X and Y receiver positions, particularly with how many screens and swing passes are in the playbook.
  4. I don't think they really want it; it's not spiritually nurturing, and the fact they are addicted to it is linked to the demise of the social bonds that previously made for a more culturally homogeneous group, at least on the biggest issues. We could address the those issues (urban/rural divide, failure of the economy to sufficiently deliver happiness, increasing inequality, dehumanization in the face of technology, even a decline in church attendance or support for alternative lifestyles if you want to validate conservative critiques), but the one that touches or has infected everything is social media. I listened to about 10 minutes of Pod Save America this morning as the boys decried violence and called out hypocrisy on the right, but they kept ignoring the elephant in the room--if we can't unite around some basic shared truths (like dishonesty is disqualifying, or that evidence based decisions should prevail in conflict resolution), you can't govern except by fiat. This is getting wildly off-track from enjoying the dildo of consequences, but personally I'd have a lot more fun laughing at the harsher ironies if I felt like Democratic leadership were prepared to actually deal with the big problem and not live in a fantasy land in which too many voters reject enlightenment.
  5. I think you answered your own question. Tari wants Jabari money and Stone is offering less.
  6. Eh, the profit motive isn't the problem. There's plenty of money to be made as the voice of the resistance (hell, Fox would probably say it's even more lucrative than being part of the mainstream). The problem is the Dems and aligned groups keep thinking this is on the far end of normal, but still normal.
  7. He had a good run and his body of work will live on. Cheers Bob.
  8. I realize it’s folly to rely on high school recruiting evals for a player in year four, but I’d really like to know what upside Stroh is offering over Neto. It would seem like experience would at least teach the more senior player to at least execute the blocking scheme.
  9. I think it’s obvious they really would have liked another year with Williams but that doesn’t explain weak shit interior play for three years running. If it was released that DJ Campbell was actually deaf and couldn’t hear snap counts it would help explain a lot. Those Bama lines that got Sark and Flood the Texas jobs were mostly recruited under Brent Key, who’s clearly a badass.
  10. Slight correction-Talarico falsely believed that VOTERS want to elect someone who, morally speaking, is “good”. And it’s not totally unfounded, but it’s at odds with a GOP that has the high ground on “good” with older low information voters and the MAGA/MAHA/young low information voters have been fed a diet almost purely of empty, showbiz and social media calories for so long that they can’t tell sincerity from bullshit, expertise from idiocy, and lies from truth.
  11. Sarah Eckhardt should run for the seat.
  12. If Framber was being paid by Seattle and Texas to throw games it would look a lot like his performance the last month.
  13. The reviews have hailed it as devastating and a superb adaptation of the book-kind of like The Road, for me once was enough.
  14. I’ve been focusing on him all game and that’s the fourth play I’ve tracked on which he blocked air.
  15. Eh, I don’t think the Texas Senate primary is going to better reward a “clear the field” candidate. More the merrier. Plus Talarico has zero sex appeal. Maybe a little of Beto’s energy will rub off on him.
  16. If Durant would take more three’s that would be a big help. He shouldn’t be taking half as many as Curry.
  17. I thought that was a deliberate reference to white nationalist iconography, no? Who is this admin will fire him for that?
  18. He hit fine in the first half, particularly in July; I think some of it is fatigue. I feel like Fangraphs or someone on the Crawfish boxes wrote an article a few years back about Altuve adjustments (basically pulls everything, trading BA for power but that it worked for him despite diminishing bat speed). I think it's clear that he needs to go back to the laboratory over the offseason because he's an out machine right now.
  19. I'm sure this isn't a novel thought, particularly here, but the filibuster should have been abandoned in 2022. At this point, there's no reckoning to come for the party that abandons it first.
  20. I posted the text version and summary earlier in the thread. He thinks the Dems should use a shutdown as leverage to restore cuts to Medicaid or to enforce corruption hearings. I’m on team shut-down and don’t really see that the Dems have anything to lose. The right will blame them for the shut down, they will blame them for funding cuts they fought against, they will blame them for Trump’s miscellaneous failures of character, etc. We can’t keep pretending there’s a way to reason with today’s GOP that results in a compromise. I’m going to start sounding like @Brisketexan, but it’s win the public or go ahead and be a collaborator like Vichy France. Step one is proving to Dem voters that their representatives are willing to do more than make public statements and enjoy the big shot treatment from Congressional staff.
  21. I think he's more lead by example. The dawning reality is that the team lacks the horses and was very lucky in the first half. They also don't appear to have any of that 2020 magic in which you could keep faith they might get hot and turn it around. If you start digging into the team stats it's more surprising they aren't in third. Arizona actually has a better run differential and they are a game below .500. I'll leave it to @Wulaw Horn or @Snake Diggity to research the best targets, but they need to an outfield version of Isaac Paredes who will grind out at bats and get on base.
  22. This was probably the weakest episode for me and relies on too many of the characters acting in inexplicably dumb ways to table set the xenomorphs going bananas.
  23. I'm a little impressed that someone has the fine motor skills to write all that on a bullet casing.
  24. I’ve long held the hope that the typical summer buying cycle might be disrupted if rates fall into attractive territory, but I will share something with the board that’s the benefit of having 40 years of experience either in the industry or growing up under someone in it. Forget about interest rates, affordability, what the Fed might do, etc. Nothing compares to employment uncertainty when it comes pulling buyers off the market.
  25. You think Crane gives a shit about who says mean things about him in the Chronicle and sports radio to their hundreds of listeners?
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