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  1. And their remaining schedule is pretty easy, especially if Brunson is still out for the Knicks on the 2nd. Maybe they drop one of those 5 away games in a row coming up, or the @Detroit game on the 28th being the second game of a B2B. They could go 14-2 to close it out and end up with a 70-12 record.
  2. Yeah, I'm pretty much cooked at this point. Mitchell sat out 2 games so far this week, Ty 1. Jaylen Brown, John Collins and Poeltl out tonight. Fox is done for the year. Just an awful streak of injuries in the last 2-3 weeks have derailed my chances at doing anything in this playoff. Not only are they not playing, but I can't make enough moves to fill for them in these absences. On the other hand, Derka and Baboontyme are still neck and neck at a 7-5 with several categories that can flip either way. They will go down to the wire on Sunday night to determine who will play Steve in the Finals.
  3. Yeah, better to wait until the middle of my fantasy playoffs... Fucker.
  4. Even if that were true, and those revenues are staying in America, how does that help those who lost their jobs? How does that money help your local mom&pop shops? All it does is increase tax revenue, which is now going to big tax cuts, and decreases in social programs that actually help people who are unemployed or under-employed. There is nothing to force those companies to actually reinvest that money into America to make it "greater" by distributing the wealth to the workforce, instead it will go to executive bonuses, stock buybacks, and a whole host of gratuitous spending by the richest 1%. This is just Trickle Down Economics in a wig.
  5. This is kinda funny/annoying. OKC coach pretends to have a sub ready at halfcourt, but doesn't ever sub him in. This forces the refs to try to stop every in-bounds play, and stall Denver from quickly putting the ball into play. https://x.com/WorldWideWob/status/1899487716414558675 I think it's pretty shitty on OKC's part. The ball is in the other player's hands after the refs check it, and if the defense isn't paying attention, that's on them. I don't think there is anything wrong with that, and as a fan, I prefer to see the flow of the game move more quickly. One of my biggest pet peeves is how many game time stops there are in the NBA. There are already too many timeouts, free throws are slow, etc etc. Trying to slow down your opponent's inbounds plays is just annoying. It will be interesting to see if this technique is used in the WCF when they meet.
  6. I think gay marriage may very well be overturned, because it is a judicial precedent, but I don't think "rounding up the gays into prisons" is going to happen. Feel free to link any bills saying that.
  7. I have NBA Centel blocked, don't know why people think it's funny.
  8. It's amazing to me how anyone in the LGBTQ+ groups can support any Republican. How do you not realize that your identity goes against their deeply held religious beliefs which they use to inform all of their policy positions? Clarence Thomas even wrote about overturning gay marriage during the Dobbs decision. It may very well happen in the next 2 years, and Republicans are not going to support a bill in Congress to restore it.
  9. Leopards don't discriminate against their prey, they eat gay faces too.
  10. Wow, that Green for CJGJ is pretty awesome. Excellent move, fills a need for little to nothing lost. Green is easily replaced with a cheap free agent. Our defense is gonna be salty next year.
  11. Ummm, these designs are a choice... The Rangers one was removed from the store.
  12. I went and looked up that "Trans" bill CA954 that "forces children to be taken away from parents if they don't let their kids change genders", and, you're not gonna believe this, BUT it's actually about Sex Education! The word "trans..." does not appear in it as far as I could find as a specific topic of discussion. It does mention many times that there is a requirement to discuss STI TRANSmission among people, and how to avoid STIs. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB954
  13. I was taught that in evangelical Bible studies/camps as a teenager. Part of their reinforcement methods for some kids is to send them to philosophical crash courses on how to debate against other religions, and in particular atheism and humanism since they are on the rise in the US. It's not a bad idea if you actually want kids to explore the ideas and fundamentals of your religion and morals, but the problem for them is that the smarter ones that do more research will go read the counter arguments and learn how shakey that foundation actually is. I remember at the one I attended a few times was called Worldview Academy, which was an evangelical Christian fundamentalist camp. One of the counter arguments they would trot out every year was that "humans are flawed, and cannot come up with a moral code on their own, so it's required that you obtain your morals from an external/non-human source." And then they go Ah HA! THE BIBLE IS THE ANSWER! You can see how that fails to hold up under scrutiny from a number of ways, but this was what they drilled into kids heads. They would say, "Atheists claim there are no absolutes... but that itself is an absolute!!!" And then laugh at how they have just unraveled the entirety of atheism's core belief structure. At the end of the week, they would have some straw man atheist (played by one of the camp teachers) who would come and "debate" the class who would ask questions about his beliefs. He would, of course, fall into the philosophical traps that they taught you about at the camp. It was basically trying to set up gotcha moments, but only if you didn't bother looking at any other information beyond what they spoonfed you. I remember the Islam section focused on the person that Muhammad was, and had the claim about him marrying a 9 year old girl, which of course invalidates him as a moral person. This of course, completely ignores all the immoral things that heroes of the Bible did that can be found directly in THE BIBLE. But you know, that doesn't count, because... reasons. Anyways, a lot of this sort of stuff I learned in the late 90s before the Internet and Youtube were a thing has now been outsourced to people like Ben Shapiro, Crowder and other talk show/podcast guys who can reach a large audience. They go into much more political discussion, reinforce it with "smackdown" type videos, and radicalize these kids to their belief system, and those 20 people in that video are the result of it. Completely lost in an echo chamber of their own beliefs, unable to listen to a single person discussing a different view, and just simply restating their own beliefs over and over and over as if that makes their arguments valid. Like a black guy arguing that DEI is bad, but cannot understand a person plainly explaining the difference between non-discrimination hiring practices (good) and racial quotas (bad). Or a gay guy arguing that trans people can't be in the military, because they might have medicines that might require refrigeration. Or a white woman arguing that there should be a "dominant culture" that everyone who "comes here" should assimilate to, instead of keeping their own beliefs, language and customs. (she also said Trump wasn't conservative enough because he didn't cancel all the H1B Visa holders and send them back) They have gone off the edge, and the only thing that will possibly change it is a massive disruption to their current lifestyle or someone close to them.
  14. They look like the Savannah Banana's evil arch rival team.
  15. Farewell 1st and 15...
  16. Yikes. Just incredible how their minds think, although that might not be the right word for it. The fact check on the trans question he had for the gay guy that wouldn't answer it was that ~4700 kids used puberty blockers over that 4 year period and only .1% of the patients in that study were transgender. Meaning, the issue is so miniscule, that it is statistically irrelevant. That was Sam's point that he didn't get to finish.
  17. So what are the prop bet odds of Cam Smith having a higher WAR at the end of the year over Tucker? That would really be something if he ends up being just about as good and for 1/100th of the price.
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  19. So did I miss something, or have there been no buyouts for older players looking to join a contender? Seems kind of unusual at this point to not have any yet.
  20. Not sure I see the point in trading for him. He's making 16.2m this year, which seems like a bit much for him. He's a good Tank Dell replacement as a slot guy, but I'm not sure I would want to spend that much cap space on him. Maybe they can rework that deal and extend him for less AAV to make it worthwhile. He's only 28, and a broken collar bone isn't a big deal, he should be good to go for camp this year.
  21. If you need a bunch of assholes to weigh in on something, try the @everyone group.
  22. Wait, I thought we had to elect Trump to avoid World War 3??? I guess Biden made it so bad that this was inevitable. Thanks Biden!
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