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  1. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    No, I am elaborating on why I am troubled with certain attitudes that seem to exist in the outer burbs of DFW to a greater extent than any other identifiable place in the nation.

    Dallas has a really strong Jewish community. There has not been a particular terrible record of anti-Jewish hate among the local Muslim community, burbs or not. You do you, but I would find other ways to seek trouble.

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  2. 37 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    To be fair to him, her nickname in the yard is "Lady Qaedy" 

    I don't know how this got turned into a thread about radio shows and immature white people though.  For once, I had nothing to do with it.  Let's toss cost of living in California into the mix while we're at it. 


     Because boards attract tribal loonies that have to make everything "two bits" for their team.

    While we're at it let's argue about the perp's vax status  and masking.

  3. 11 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    The fact is that the Dallas Field Office of the FBI has arrested more 1/6 rioters, 60, than any other in the nation.  Nearly 10% of those charged.

    And, while some of them are mere fucking idiot cunts like Jenna Ryan, a pretty good chunk of them are violent, ragey assholes that are charged with felonies, like Stewart Rhodes.

    No sure this is the "Go Cops" thread but okay. They did good on July 7, 2016, too if you're thinking about signing up? Maybe wrong thread?

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  4. 9 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

    Dude, I grew up in the north part of Garland.  Bigggggg suburb. I went to a fairly wealthy public high school 20+ years ago that had impressive amounts of Indian and Pakistani students, Hispanic students of various origin, East Asian Students of all origin, etc.  Probably more exaggerated than the current US census.  I drove by a Sikh temple and a Vietnamese Buddhist temple on my way to school every day.   “Those people” were just as likely to stay at my house on Friday night as my buddies on the football team if we had been out and running and needed to crash.  You don’t have the place to assume or lecture me about cultural shit in the burbs

    You and your reality and silly facts.

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  5. On 1/11/2022 at 9:13 AM, babysdaddy said:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59895934

     

    masks in schools.  actually used a control group.  

    "Schools where face coverings were used in October 2021 saw a reduction two to three weeks later in Covid absences from 5.3% to 3% - a drop of 2.3 percentage points.

    In schools which did not use face coverings absences fell from 5.3% to 3.6% - a fall of 1.7 percentage points.

    It said this was not statistically significant and the greater reduction in schools where masks were worn could be down to chance."

    That's always the rub. When you have a test subject in a test environment only a portion of the time, really hard to glean causality. 

    That study your referenced does not make a ton of sense because it compared a test group with Oct. 2021 data with a control group from Jan. 2021. IIRC, January was a very high numbers months, so feels like already not comparing apples to apples. Seems like a pandemic does not lend itself to comparing data from different time periods given the vacillation in community transmission rates.
     

    David Zweig, who has done some great work on covid, did a piece in The Atlantic on how the CDC used a flawed study to encourage masking in U.S. schools.

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  6. 31 minutes ago, Had Enough said:


    For me, forever and always is to award the best team based on having the best season. It’s rarely perfect though. I don’t give a shit about a tournament winner as that method has flaws. And when you expand to allow playoff home games, that’s bogus. Some team gets a bye, bogus.

    Again, we lack parity now because of bull shit cheating and preferential treatment. OU would still lead the Big 12 by quite a few titles but they’d have fewer if the officials weren’t in their back pocket. Bama and Georgia are where they are because of player management tactics. The Aggies are trying to get there.

    In college football you have too many teams with unbalanced schedules and play too few games. Rematches are largely bullshit. If you lose going away like Georgia to Bama then win the last 5 minutes largely because Bama couldn’t get TDs rather than FGs, then I’m not convinced Georgia is better. They have not proven it on the field, but they did win the last one.

    You can keep chasing this perfect playoff methodology, but there are costs to it.

    64 teams, 8 conferences and champs. Only champs advance. Take the non-con out of the schools hands. Rotate conferences after playing home and home. Random seeding for the tournament. In order to be the best, you’ve got to beat the best. If it comes round 1 so be it. You could still have bowls for non-tournament schools if you wanted. but the single, oversight entity sets those conference tie-ins. Now you have fewer teams, more balanced schedules, everyone shares in the revenue to promote parity (it still won’t happen), and an equal opportunity to make the tourney.

    good luck getting the SEC to give away power. Some of your longtime friends and foes you will never see again. Who knows what happens to some smaller schools that bank on the big payout.

    Every other sport settles it on the field. It's not about a retrospective evaluation of the season.

    As a Chiefs fan, 100% they win the Super Bowl if the two doofus linemen hadn't gotten rona from the barber shop and missed the game. If the NFL did a "season evaluation" then the Chiefs are back-to-back, but that's not how the real world works.

  7. 27 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

    This is the funniest, craziest conspiracy theory I've ever seen.   LOL

     

    The oddest thing about that video was imagining Tennessee and Mississippi State in the secsecsec title game.

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