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  1. So I found an event at Brazosport college that was for k-12. It’s part competition (they have a few prizes ranging $500-1000) and part youth outreach/tryout. She had to learn a longer and more difficult piece than she’s done in the past and only had about 2.5 weeks to do it (op 35 concerto). She put in a lot of hours and it was cool on my end to see how much better she was from day compared to day 18ish. All the others were in high school and she didn’t win, but she did get selected to play with the college orchestra in March. She and a few of the high school students will practice 1-2 times a week with the symphony for the next 8 weeks and then play in the concert. She had fun and is really excited about it. We also got to meet the director and a few people that might work out as private instructors in the area. She also decided to do clarinet in band at the new school so I go to pick up the rental this evening.
  2. If we can go 2-2 against USCe, LSU, @UK and @MSST I’ll be content. We also need to take care of business and win against Mizzou, Vandy, Florida, @aggy, @uga. That gets us to 13-3 and almost assuredly a double bye in the SEC tournament
  3. https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 With AI there's a few phases of actual computationally intense work. 1) Data prep/loading for training. - This is where you get all the stuff you want to show the AI together, cleaned up and formatted and tagged and whatever. You have to be able to tell an AI what to compare stuff to and when and if something is right or wrong after it spits out whatever it is doing in training. Think of this like decomposing a food dish to its ingredients and how much of each was in the recipe. They "tokenize" the data and assign arbitrary neural net locations to these tokens. Simply put this is a brain from newborn until 10-12 years old where you are mostly in feeding and organizing what is fed to you mode. 2) training itself - this is where the big math stuff happens. It adds parameters and models weights to certain training results and just tries over and over and over and over to spit out something it knows is right by a reward system (that was more right than less right etc) they do this countless amounts of times until there starts to be associations between the neural nodes themselves. So the likelihood of the next token is probably one of the nuerons that has a shitload of connections to the prior token. The one with the most connections is the weighted winner by default, but you can mess with the parameters to get a range. Once you do this enough times you start to get to a place where it's mostly accurate regurgitating prompts that you have fed it. From your big pool of tokenized data. Think of this like having all the ingredients to make every dish you've ever had and also the recipe cards and you just randomly mix them and taste the food then look at the recipe and see how wrong you were (not what you did wrong, just that you weren't right) and then you try again until you get good enough to just recreate any dish you are asked and the recipe is close enough. Simply put this is where you learn how to learn and start to use what you've learned in school. 12-19ish brain where you go to school, play sports learn to drive or do things etc. 2b) reinforcement learning or reasoning etc. This is where you do the things in step 1 but have stuff that wasn't in the training set thrown at you at the same time and you are graded significantly more harshly to the point where you need to not only recreate a dish but also do any modifications or substitutes asked in the prompt and it still be acceptable. Simply put this is where you start to really work on specific problems and use your knowledge to do stuff. Think junior year of college or post journeyman trade moving into graduate or masters programs or into unsupervised work in the trades up to and including taking your PE exam for engineers. 19-25ish of the human brain. After step 2 you can plop that out into what's called a model. This is a saved state of all the neural network and the weights and all that, but without having to store the training set, just the tokens and parameters. The larger the parameters the bigger the model (1B, 7b, 30b, 200b, 875b that you see next to models) you can get pretty awesome results with low parameter models that are well trained without having to go crazy on the next part. 3) inference - this is where you take the model and load it into working memory. So the bigger the model the bigger your working memory set needs to be. And all this working memory needs to be immediately accessible so it can start outputting the answer. This is where you can have a restaurant with anyone in the world asking you to cook anything they've ever eaten that's recorded in history and order it their way and you are expected to immediately cook it in as little time as possible. The faster your memory is and the better your reinforcement learning was the faster and more accurately you can serve this dish. Simply put this is being the engineer or doctor or tradesperson or whatever you functionally expertise at as an adult. This is what you get paid to do with your brain not your body. Human brain 25+ish. Except what we are trying to do with these LLM and agentic models is actually just do this whole thing once and have it be expert level at everything. So instead if making a bot to win iron chef we are trying to make a bot that can win iron chef, master chef, survivor, big brother, call the NFC championship game, engineer a building, fix traffic in Chicago, make a cure for cancer, build the best app in the app store, etc. It can do anything you throw at it and it can do it awesome. Small language models or models trained specifically on a certain topic are far better and you can take an llm and in 2a specialize it and then it can just win iron chef every time. Models right now have 3 styles of release. 1) Commercial/Proprietary - you pay us we give you the license and let you use it according to a specific cost structure. That's whether you pay per token or run it yourself and pay a license fee. 2) Commercial/Open Source - you can download the model and use it on your own computers or you can pay us to use it on our computers for a specific cost structure, unless you make a bunch of money off using it to actually do something and then we get a cut of that (meta llama model) 3) Completely Open Source - you can download it and do whatever you want with it as long as you say it's our model. Tons of people can offer this on any cost structure, but the devekoper usually offers a plan too (deepseek) If you had 8 H100s or MI350X or whatever that had about 800GB of HBM for the GPUs in a cluster you can run deepseek-R1 with no germs and conditions. Download it from the link up top. They have distilled models that make it smaller so you can run it on a laptop all the way through a pretty beefy workstation. Basically they gave the brain away you just need to put it in an android, how much memory your android has is how fancy of a model you can install.
  4. So you’re ignoring the largest climate bill in our history too? Sure they have regressed on policy a bit. I mean they clearly have tried to cater to middle ground voters in an effort to win. The Overton window shifted massively to the right. It’d be super awesome if they ran on free college and free healthcare but that clearly wouldn’t win for them. Republicans literally spent decades telling everyone they were going to take away healthcare and social security so not really sure what you think dems should have done. It’s not a leadership failure, it’s populace failure. Blaming progressives, or dems, or neocons, or Hilary or Kamala is all bullshit window dressing. This country has an education problem and that’s why we are here.
  5. It's for sure hyperbole. They were a win away from the CFP last year. They struggled in a new league that has more talent top to bottom than the Big12, where OU and us were the two most talented teams pretty much since inception. Give them Gabriel back and how many wins do they have? As far as all time I put Quinn right behind wherever you think Colt should go. I usually break up the eras because football is so much different than it used to be. First, NC's were just "declared". Most people never got to see the people in person so it was mostly all hype, and we were discounting teams with black players back then.
  6. I take issue with that statement. Our losses under Quinn: Bama 22 - I will give him a pass here. He was cooking and then got injured. Most likely a win if he doesnt get injured. Oklahoma State 22- Not more talented than us. He played very poorly. 3 INT TCU 22- Not more talented than us. He played poorly. 1 INT Washington 22- About equal to us in talent. Quinn played above average, there were some bad drops. OU 23- Inferior Talent and we lost. He played poorly. 2 INT and a lost fumble Washington 23- Equal talent. Had multiple chances from the 10 yard line and couldnt get it done. UGA 24 (2)- Equal talent. Both games he didnt play well, combined for 3 INT and a lost fumble. OSU 24- The only team with a talent edge over us that we played in his entire era (and it was a slight edge). He played above average. But couldnt get it done. His legacy would look much different if he couldve gotten it done in the playoffs. But he didnt. And that is the difference between your name going up in the stadium and just being another QB who played at UT.
  7. I don't think they need to sack Munn or Lange. The issue is we want to win and compete at the highest level while spending significantly less than the other clubs we want to compete with. That basically requires everything to go perfectly. It's not realistic.
  8. Ange better hope they come back and win this. He might not survive a loss like this one. It's more than coincidence when we keep losing players to injury. Yeah, we have a busy fixture, but so do other clubs. Something is going on at the club beyond just the injuries.
  9. Was at the game. What a blast.... - It's probably up thread but how long is Kaluma out for? He's the "adult in the room" on this team. We are just way better when he is on the floor. - Loved that Larry got the block on #4. #4 was talking shit all game and Larry shut him up. Like that kid.. - That said, someone upthread questioned why he wasn't getting minutes. It's because he is a liability on offense. He is sophomore year Steve Wojo... He can pass and defend, but won't dribble past the Wojo wall (as we used to call it (gulp) 30 years ago). The next time Larry drives to the bucket will be the first time. - Tre, like in the Tennessee game, was better than everyone else on the court. Once he got loose a bit and figured things out. 8-10 gets us in. I honestly want to move on from Terry and I hope there is a bit of realpolitik barring a Sweet 16 or better run to allow us to go get the next guy. But I also want to make the tourney and we should be above the line with this game. Win 5 of Arky 2x, OU, Vandy, SoCar, LSU, Georgia, Ms St., and/or pick up a win in one of the other games and we are in.
  10. We have too many guards. Pope, Larry, Johnson, and Mark should be the rotation. Weaver should be used in emergency break glass going forward. Then you have more than enough depth at 4-5 with Kaluma, Shedrick, Kent, Onyema. With Pryor and Codie getting 2-3 minutes a half in case of foul trouble. Larry had a 6/0 game with 3 rebounds and the key block on Taylor to give Texas a chance to win it. Weaver just can't deliver that kind of line when you also consider he's horrible at the FT line.
  11. B2B top 25 wins. We are going to make the tournament.
  12. Here we go. Hero ball shot for the win. Please go in. Fuck aggy.
  13. we’re not going to fire RT mid season, nor should we. i’m simply saying that the “optics” argument was always BS. you don’t *have* to hire a coach who you know sucks just because a few former players won’t like it and the media will mention it for 2-3 days. we’re now in january of RT’s second full year and our entire fan base is beyond sick of RT being our coach. this is why “we HAD” to hire him doesn’t hold water. we did not have to hire him, and we never should have. it’s been CDC’s one misstep in HC hiring. have a search, let RT be the runner up, and then hire a coach who’s capable of winning at this level. the fallout would have been minimal, and would have disappeared as soon as everyone was reminded of how mid RT actually is.
  14. This team has checked out. We are not going to the SEC tourney and might be lucky to win one more game the rest of the way out. CDC should get a head start and fire Terry and let the games begin for his replacement.
  15. Biden’s policies were generally really, really fucking fantastic for ordinary Americans. problems - inflation was thought to be transitory in 2020, turned out to be a massive issue that won’t be resolved for a few more years even though the rate of inflation is slowed. It takes years to over come multiple years of 6-9% inflation, especially when you already have years of tepid nominal wage growth at the bottom that doesn’t keep up with inflation. When those wages finally started to rise they further added to the inflationary problems. No president is winning reelection with the inflationary environment we were in. This is a full stop reason. Biden’s physical limitations - not so much his age, but his stutter - has left him uneasy communicating the last few years. Plus I think he wanted to give us all a break from the president being the headline every day. It was remarkable, I enjoyed it all. But he left a vacuum, Trump and the republicans filled it. biden and the democrats don’t know how to engage in a bloody street fight like republicans do. Purity politics, when they go low we go high nonsense, all of it. How Trump gets away with sabotaging a good border bill? Schumer is a terrible communicator too. Gloves have to come off, you have to attack, sound bites, ruthless jabs, just get after them. democrats don’t have an enemy, for those that say they don’t stand for anything, that’s actually nonsense. Standing for principles like equality, safety, personal autonomy just don’t get you anything. What gets you something in this political climate is demonizing others. Go hard to the paint on the oligarchy. Fuck the billionaires. And if they agree the oligarchy is bad, they can give money and speak up, but we still need to go after the oligarchy with the same fervor pitch that the republicans go after Muslims, gays, trans people and Hispanic immigrants. nominate liberal populists. If you go after the oligarchy, you need someone who has the policy initiatives for the working class. Biden was that guy, but so was sanders and Warren, those like them are the future of the party. Reform for college education finance - take the banks out of the profit taking business for school finance, housing, it’s been decades upon decades since we created the conventional loan system, we need new reforms to make more first time home buyers, we need massive health care reform to make healthcare more affordable and accessible, we need to fund and protect social security. These are fundamental things we have to address, democrats talk too much about it and haven’t done anything with it when they’ve had power. That alone is a major issue with democratic candidates and the voters. as for wokeness and all the extra liberal stuff, yeah equal rights matter. But I don’t give a fuck if you put pronouns in your email signature, but I do care that doctors, parents, and patients have autonomy. I do care that women have power and control over our bodies (abortion and trans rights). I do care that trans people should be free from discrimination. The Federal Equality Act was there for the passing but Dems couldn’t get it done. That shit needs to happen. The roll backs for women, queer, gay and trans people is just medieval. I’m not going to apologize for that position, but I can say it’s a major issue in our political culture not because queer folk are dangerou or bad, we are an issue because everything else is so bad. the good news is the Dems historically and even now have the winning positions, the bad news is democrats are absolutely awful politicians.
  16. Why is it that some people are so devoid of a sense of humor? Naturally, I’m referring to Hank Kingsley. As a warning, this letter will be a hard and bumpy read. Neverthelss, I contend it is a necessary read given that I am not predicting anything specific. I just have a feeling, an intuition, based on several things that are happening now that Hank will silence any criticism of the brainwashing and double standards that he increasingly has been practicing by the end of the decade. You can waste all your time arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Or you can actually provide support and care to those who have been impacted by inequality, inequity, injustice, and discrimination. You decide. The great thing about Hank—and by “great” I obviously mean “drug-addled”—is that he views countries and the people that live in them either as economic targets to be exploited or as military targets to be defeated. Only a true-blue stubborn slumlord or one who is completely clueless about barbarism could claim otherwise. While I don’t question Hank’s motives, and I certainly understand the frustrations of his zealots, just the other day, some of his spineless, belligerent pickthanks forced a prospectus into my hands as I walked past. The prospectus described Hank’s blueprint for a world in which recalcitrant, brainsick malefactors are free to give people a new and largely artificial basis for evaluating things and making decisions. As I dropped the prospectus onto an overflowing wastebasket I reflected upon the way that Hank cannot tolerate the world as it is. He needs to live in a world of fantasies. To be more specific, we need to enhance people’s curiosity, critical acumen, and aesthetic sensitivity. Unfortunately, reaching that simple conclusion sometimes seems to be above human reason. But there is a wisdom above human, and to that we must look if we are ever to discuss at length and in full horrific detail all of Hank’s beefheaded mottos and tetchy fulminations. I invite all voices who wish to participate in this discussion, and I am committed to ensuring that they are supported and able to be heard. Only through such conversations can we struggle unceasingly against Hank’s unremitting stream of cacodoxies and slander. There’s a clear path to achieving that goal: We must work together, help each other, get to know and trust each other, and uplift each other. If we do, Hank will be powerless to stop us from succeeding. I know I’m droning on, but I have a message for Hank. My message is that, for the good of us all, he should never use organized violence to suppress opposition. He should never even try to do such a sniveling thing. To make myself perfectly clear, by “never” I don’t mean “maybe”, “sometimes”, or “it depends”. I mean only that tyrants often wage war on their condemners under the guise of rooting out corruption. If you think about it, that’s no different from Hank silencing any criticism of the brainwashing and double standards that he increasingly has been practicing. I suppose there is one key difference, though: If you think that serfdom and slavery do not represent oppression unless the serfs or the slaves themselves “articulate” that oppression then you’re suffering from very serious nearsightedness. You’re focusing too much on what Hank wants you to see and failing to observe many other things of much greater importance such as that unpatriotic, intellectually challenged pseudo-intellectuals are somehow fascinated by his soporific diablerie, just as a dove is sometimes charmed by a glittering serpent. Unfortunately for such people, Hank lashes out with angry, simplistic, ad hominem attacks whenever someone so much as implies that he claims that the Scriptures are responsible for his rabid, otiose thoughts and fancies. This eisegetical fantasy is not only ingordigious, but it fails to consider that Hank’s fairy tales are all about ushering in the rule of the Antichrist and the apocalyptic end times. In other words, his fairy tales are based on miserabilism, with all that implies: loss of freedom of expression, thought control, and, ultimately, a totalitarian state. Okay, I admit that hatred and clericalism have no place in our community. But if Hank can’t be reasoned out of his prejudices, he must be laughed out of them. If Hank can’t be argued out of his selfishness, he must be shamed out of it. Let’s sum up our findings so far. First, we saw that Hank doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong. Afterward, I discussed how Hank lives in a world of privileged emotion devoid of any connectable empirical dots. From these two main points I believe we can conclude that the emotionally fragile and psychologically vulnerable spend their entire existence seeking out the cause of their torment and then searching for the ideal therapy. Hank capitalizes on this by trying to convince such people that embracing a system of Dadaism will make everything right with the world. Should we care that large numbers of the most heartless, irascible spalpeens there are actually believe such mischievous things? Should we try to convince them otherwise? I don’t think so. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that with all their sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, Hank’s reports are absolutely sententious. So what’s the connection between that and Hank’s positions? The connection is that only resolute and urgent action will prevent him from advocating fatalistic acceptance of an effete, addlepated new world order. Whether there will be the public will to demand and obtain that action, I do not know. All I know is that I, not being a liberticidal mome, like to speak of Hank as “disgusting”. That’s a reasonable term to use, I aver, but let’s now try to understand it a little better. For starters, he, with his craftiness and worthless nostrums, will entirely control our country’s exuberant riches within a short period of time. He will then use those riches to operate on a criminal—as opposed to a civil disobedience—basis. The moral of this story is that I would love to debate him about his views on demagogism. Alas, given how ill-prepared Hank is to win such a debate, he’s been trying to suppress the debate before it can even occur. Such behavior tells us that Hank intends to put his unsophisticated camorra in charge of slandering those who are most systematically undervalued, underpaid, underemployed, underfinanced, underinsured, underrated, and otherwise underserved and undermined as undeserving and underclass. We should not stand for that, with that, or by that. Rather, we should make it clear that Hank ought to unstop his ears and uncover his eyes. Only then will he hear that to which he has been too long heedless. Only then will Hank see that he wants to be the arbiter of all behavior. Creating division in the name of diversity: allowed. Listening to others: entirely forbidden. Converting freedom of speech from a human right into a tool of oppression that must be blunted by force: no problem. Improving the world: probably deserving of a prison term. Here’s a nugget of information that you might find interesting: I’ve heard more than one member of Hank’s unpleasant platoon of distasteful schnooks state, “People don’t mind having their communities turned into war zones, and therefore, arriving at a true state of comprehension is too difficult and/or time-consuming”. In other words (to translate this linguistic mess), the truth never escapes Hank’s lips. As an extreme example, consider Hank’s assertion that neuroticism is a noble cause. As far as I can tell, that’s pure invention. And by “pure invention”, I mean “an outright lie”. By all accounts, Hank’s most recent directives defy belief, even by the exceedingly low standards that I have for anything Hank writes. For instance, it turns out that he claims that his beliefs (as I would certainly not call them logically reasoned arguments) are all about giving a voice to the downtrodden. That they aren’t. They’re all about silencing the voices we already have by depriving us of the freedom to state in public that Hank believes that women are crazed Pavlovian sex-dogs who will salivate at any object even remotely phallic in shape. Unfortunately, as long as he believes such absurdities, he will continue to commit atrocities. What does this mean for our future? For one thing, it means that Hank thinks it’s good that his metanarratives obstruct various things. It is difficult to know how to respond to such monumentally misplaced values, but let’s try this: The term “idiot savant” comes to mind when thinking of him. Admittedly, that term applies only halfway to him, which is why I profess that if society were a beer bottle—something, I believe, that Hank holds in high regard—he would indeed be the nauseating bit at the bottom that only the homeless like to drink. He has the gall to inculcate the hermeneutics of suspicion in otherwise open-minded people. Let me explain. Once he accepts responsibility for the problems he’s caused, the focus shifts from who is responsible to what each of us can do about it. That represents yet more evidence—as if we needed more—that sinister forces, backed by Hank, seek to reinforce the impression that oleaginous cads—as opposed to Hank’s retainers—are striving to reinforce the concept of collective guilt that is the root of all prejudice. I choose to fight those forces, and I sincerely hope a majority of my readers will do the same. Although I’ve reached the end of this letter, I’m not going to sit down. I’m not going to shut up. I’m only going to redouble my efforts to direct your attention in some detail to the vast and irreparable calamity brought upon us by Hank Kingsley.
  17. i feel like we were in a similar position to start conference play last year. I believe we started off 1-3 with a miracle win at CIncy so we probably should've started off 0-4. While I'm like many of you and dont view Rodney as a coach commensurate with the quality of bball we should expect at UT, one quality that I do like about him is he's not going to give up his job easily. He's fully aware that he's fortunate as fuck to have this job and will proceed accordingly. I'm certain that these guys will fight for him down the stretch and improve over the course of the season as all of RT's teams seem to have done over the past couple of years he's been at the helm.
  18. As a nearly retired educator who loves college football, I have all of these off-season questions that make me think..hmmm. Analogy- I worked for what used to be a very well known cafeteria for 8.5 years, in the 1990s.. It was a total beating, but I learned to cook and run a business in 3-4 years. I stayed too long, ate too much delicious food. During that time asst. mgrs and assoc. mgrs worked 70+ hours per week, totally oblivious to the outside world. GM's for the most part worked 35-40 hours per week and made big $. When our CEO checked into a Motel 6 in San Antonio one year and cut his own throat to kill himself in the early morning hours, mgrs. did not flee the company like crazy. We kept on working. Why? We were too tired to leave or were totally brainwashed to ignore the outside world? I finally left years later after family events made it happen. Do the assistant coaches have much of a say in what the gameplan will be? Iow, assume they are working 80+ hour weeks, similar to my mgt. job. Example, flashback to November 1983, and Coach Fred Akers has been tinkering with the QB lineup all season. It comes down to the Aggy game and Akers decides on the golden-armed Rick McIvor. Rick throws 4 TD passes, totally surprising aggy, and we win 45-13 to finish 11-0. We're on the verge of a NC, after we win against Georgia in the CB. Pretend there is a meeting after the game and If an asst. coach said something like, "You know Georgia's probably working on nothing but McIvor for the next five weeks," would that have gained any traction with any of the top coaches? I don't think anybody would have given it a second thought, but we will never know. For younger people, McIvor was still accurate passing on a very blustery, windy, day at the CB, which is known for tough winds, Ward missed two FGs, and we dropped probably 7+ passes. Had Akers come out with the running QB, Rob Moerschell, in the 2nd half, Georgia would have been totally surprised, we would have scored at least a TD to go ahead by a comfortable margin, and we would never have to endure the nightmare of the dropped punt. One national championship missed. There are plenty of other examples of what ifs that would lead us to many more national championships. Go to the recent one, of course. Ohio St. knew the play that was coming at the 2 yard line. How? Why were we at a coaching disadvantage at the 2 yard line, but we were at a coaching advantage the entire game against their wide receivers? Are defensive coaches just smarter than offensive coaches? Do we not scout ourselves? Or is that even a thing? Same scenario of questions - our OL vs. OhioSt. DL. Are we always going to be at a coaching disadvantage, or is this just one game when Ohio St. had better coaches? Does anybody think Ohio St. just had better players? I think we are exactly where we need to be wrt NIL and players. We just need to improve our coaching. I'm not keeping track exactly but I bet the tush-push has about a 99% accuracy rating for getting one yard. We just need someone to run it.
  19. I agree with your analysis overall. I think it's almost certain we lose 1 or 2 of the "should" win games, though. Which means we probably have to win 1 or 2 of the "shouldn't" win games to make the tournament. It's gonna be interesting. Feels like the season could go any which way from here on out while RTs job hangs in the balance.
  20. Obviously there are a lot of ways to measure the success of a program. A team getting a Final Four or a Title in 1940-1970 isn't really that relevant as far as I'm concerned. The KenPom "program ratings" take into account tourney success and computer rankings since 1997, which is longer than any recruit has been alive. And longer than many of their parents have even been actively following the sport. Just going on the computer ranking, Texas falls to #14 and Florida, Ohio State, Louisville and Wisconsin jump ahead of us. That seems about right to me. All that said, if a talented young coach is on the market, I don't think there are more than 4-5 schools that are more attractive than UT as a destination. Kentucky, Kansas, UNC... maybe UCLA and Duke. I think that's it. That doesn't mean that we will be able to pry a good coach away from Arizona, UConn or Florida. But if we are all bidding for an unattached coach, I think we win.
  21. There is no rational argument that the Russia of today is better off than it was in 2021. There is no functional argument that allows anyone to believe that the 50-year timeline is more positive for Russia in the post-2021 version of events in comparison to a plausible per-invasion timeline. The problem is that Putin made a move, that if was successful ie the 3 day planned rollup of Kiev, that would have placed Russia in a much better place than they were in 2021 geopolitically. But that move failed and now we are all living Putin's sunk cost fallacy as he hopes to now win his Phrryic victory for his own legacy of expansion at the cost of Russia's well-being as a whole. This is a case of a leader being unwilling to recognize and disengage from a mistake. In many cases, he does not have a ton of positive viable off-ramps that would allow him to save face now. He caught the tiger by the tail and doesn't have a way to let go without getting mauled. All he can hope for is that the tiger starves to death before he does. I am starting to be of the belief that Putin really has some sort of slow terminal illness and all of these ideas and agreements are looking to blunt his steady slide into madness knowing full well that after the fact they will be overridden in the chaos.
  22. It is obvious Trump wants the war over and by tapping Kellog to be his envoy it implies that the direction they are going to go is similar to what Kellog and Fleitz proposed in June. That was a full stop everywhere and an eventual rollback to 2022 borders and delaying Ukrainian NATO membership for 10 years or so to allow Russia time to plan for these new eventualities and then some type of carrot for both Russia and the Ukraine as far as rebuilding goes. If Russia doesn't agree, the idea was full-on crippling sanctions of Russia and anyone doing any form of trade with Russia (so no oil caps for the sale of Russia oil to India, straight embargo, no 3rd party sales of anything to Russia, no electronic access to anything from the rest of the world) and the gloves come off militarily in how we provide aid. The problem now is since June when the plan was developed Ukraine is in a worse position and much of that can be attributed to a failure by the prior administration to let them fight the war the way it needed to be fought. Looking back in retrospect, I think it is fairly obvious that the prior administration (and to some extent the EU) was more interested in winning the PR war than the Ukraine war. The assumption was winning the PR war would mean the real war would follow in line. I will use the delivery of the F15s as an example. We spent a huge amount of time and money dedicated to training, equipping, and maintaining these systems, but all they are being used for is drone and cruise missile interdiction. No hardcore attacks with air-ground systems to wipe out the Kerch bridge. No systematic destruction over Crimea via the Black Sea. We provided Ukraine with a super expensive toy that should be an extreme force multiplier. Still, due to a variety of reasons, it is a net waste of capital and time if compared with more conventional weapons systems of the same value. How many decisions mirror this? I applaud the initial idea of sending Abrams, but it is painfully obvious the Bradley is much better suited for this war and yet we still have approximately 1500 still in storage. From a MRO standpoint, why not admit the Abrams are not what is needed and swap them out 2 for 1 with Bradleys? Simplify the MRO side and provide Ukraine what they can use more effectively. The red lines with the ATCAMS, the limiting of weapon systems uses and variants. It is sad to say that I have much greater hope that there will be a "positive" result with Trump than I am with Biden. It won't be what I want, but I don't think the 2 or 4 more years of a slow grinding war is something I can stomach either.
  23. Those teams were all great shooting teams, and the top players were probably better shooters than the 2025 team. I'm not really going to argue that this team is better, but they are definitely in the conversation. As a TEAM goes, this is the most efficient shooting team we have had in the last 30 years. 2004-2005 - 0.388 3P%, 0.456 FG%, 0.697 FT%, 0.524 eFG%, 0.558 TS% 2005-2006 - 0.372 3P%, 0.455 FG%, 0.727 FT%, 0.524 eFG%, 0.559 TS% 2009-2010 - 0.345 3P%, 0.466 FG%, 0.633 FT%, 0.511 eFG%, 0.536 TS% 2010-2011 - 0.376 3P%, 0.455 FG%, 0.654 FT%, 0.502 eFG%, 0.534 TS% 2024-2025 - 0.373 3P%, 0.483 FG%, 0.748 FT%, 0.550 eFG%, 0.586 TS% Of course, the numbers will likely get worse as we move through conference. But for how ugly this team plays offense, somehow the efficiency is as good as we have ever had. And we turn the ball over less than any other UT team except the 2008 Elite Eight team. I struggle to understand why we aren't better. Our defense isn't bad. I think if we were an elite rebounding team, we would have 2-3 more wins. Seems like our opponent getting offensive rebounds is what dooms us.
  24. no secrets here. if we can find a way to win on the glass then we will win this game. if a&m is routinely allowed to have multiple looks at the basket then it’s going to be a typical sec struggle. i think that RT is gone at the end of this year regardless of what happens, so i have less than zero conflicting feelings when it comes to my desire to see us beat the aggies by 35 points. trust in CDC, and throttle a&m. always.
  25. Wait, are we going to run off nazi's and nazi sympathizers from this site just by removing twitter embeds? A win is a freakin win. Thanks @immamac
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