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Speaking as someone who takes has lots of friends who consume a number of drugs recreationally, it's easy and cheap (and often easily free) to get testing kits and know what you've got and are putting into your body. Being scrupulous and diligent about your sources and your contacts/acquaintances/friends of friends is also very doable and paramount. At the end of the day, there's no perfect safeguard against young people being reckless, but education and awareness are the best weapons we have and far more effective than dogma.

I've seen hooked on huskers photoshop jobs literally thousands of times at this point. Come on Dannen, step up

This is what I saw (I've seen it elsehwere, but first link was from on3 themselves) https://www.on3.com/news/on3-nfl-draft-ranking-accuracy-2025/ On3 leads with the most blue-chip prospects closest to draft spot The method: To keep this as simple as possible, we will assign a winner for each draft pick based on how close the numeric ranking is to their draft spot. If there is an equal distance between multiple rankings and the draft spot, all sites will get credit for a win, including if the highest ranking is an unranked four-star. No winner is awarded for players who were not ranked as a blue-chip prospect (4-star or 5-star) by any site. We are counting prospects from the 2021 and 2022 cycles, as On3’s inaugural ranking came during the 2021 cycle. Round 1 1. On3 – closest ranking on 12 first-rounders 2. Rivals – closest ranking on 8 first-rounders 3. ESPN – closest ranking on 6 first-rounders 4. 247Sports – closest ranking on 2 first-rounders Overall, it was a stellar showing by the recruiting industry as a remarkable 28/32 first-rounders were ranked as a five-star or a four-star by at least one outlet. Two of the four non-blue-chip players signed with an FCS program out of high school, making for a 93.3% hit rate on blue-chip first-rounders who signed at the FBS level. Rounds 1-3 1. On3 – 28 2. Rivals – 13 3. ESPN – 11 4. 247Sports – 7 We view rounds 1-3 as the best indicator of rankings success. In looking to establish macro trends within the draft, we find that the first three rounds present the best mix of top prospects who project as NFL starters and a sample size large enough to account for all positions. Day 3 sees a much higher percentage of future backups selected, muddying the waters. Rounds 1-7 1. On3 – 39 2. ESPN – 27 3. Rivals – 20 4. 247Sports – 17 Players from earlier cycles are still being drafted, including former 2020 prospects, a cycle that touts arguably the most loaded group of future draft picks to come through the high school ranks in recent memory. 2020 recruiting cycle: 1. 247Sports – 18 2. ESPN – 12 3. Rivals – 10 On3’s rankings measure as the most consistent We can get a feel for the consistency of rankings by measuring the average distance from high school ranking to the draft spot for prospects who are ranked as a blue-chip by at least one outlet. This measure helps to account for big misses relative to the rest of the industry. In assessing the first round, On3 and 247Sports had the most consistent rankings relative to the draft spot for prospects from the 2021 and 2022 recruiting cycles. On3 led the way with the lowest average distance from high school ranking to the draft position, with 247Sports not far behind. The average distance from the draft spot for On3 and 247Sports was twice as close as that of Rivals (3rd) and ESPN (4th). For the entire draft, On3 also had the closest average ranking relative to the draft spot. On3 was 29% closer to the average draft spot than 247Sports (the clear No. 2), and approximately twice as close to the draft spot as ESPN (3rd) and Rivals (4th). On3, 247Sports lead the way with the most 5-star first-rounders Five-star prospects are meant to project as future first-round picks. Here is the tally of five-stars taken in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft: 1. On3, 247Sports – 11 (tie) 2. Rivals – 9 3. ESPN – 6 Two five-star outliers were selected in the first round: Georgia’s Jalon Walker (247Sports five-star outlier) and Tennessee’s James Pearce (On3 five-star outlier). Oddly enough, both EDGE prospects were taken by the Atlanta Falcons and are both from the Charlotte, North Carolina area. Pearce (No. 11 overall for On3 in 2022), whose next highest ranking was No. 160 (Rivals) is one of the two biggest five-star outliers taken in the first round, along with former Northwestern offensive lineman Peter Skoronski (2023 draft). On3 has the most blue-chip prospects drafted Blue-chip prospects – defined as four-stars and five-stars – are players who are projected as future draft picks. Here is the tally of prospects from the 2021 and 2022 cycles who were tabbed as a blue-chip prospect by each site. On3 – 85 247Sports – 78 Rivals – 77 ESPN – 71

They've outperformed everyone else in terms of correlation between their rankings and NFL draftees, for whatever that's worth.

Sorry if my phrasing wasn't clear, but that's kind of what I meant. Nobody would be advocating on his behalf if all that happened was he was sent away, deported somewhere else but still free. That he was sent to a prison, and in a country we legally weren't allowed to send him to, IS the lack of due process.

Would anybody in the world be crying about his lack of due process if he was properly deported, due to illegally being here, anywhere other than an El Salvadorian mega prison?

WE WANT RENDERS!

I see the pattern, and it's wildly inconclusive for anyone who understands the interpersonal and sociocultural dynamics in certain immigrant communities. It's like trying to prove that an Italian in New York in the 60's wasn't a part of the mafia, despite all sorts of circumstantial evidence. The influences and interconnectedness are everywhere.

Not too big of a deal to make a point on, but personally I don't see anything about Trump in these remarks. "Do I take any blame for inflation? No," Biden told reporters. "Why not?" Biden was asked in return. "Because it was already there when I got here, man. Remember what the economy was like when I got here? Jobs were hemorrhaging. Inflation was rising. We weren't manufacturing a damn thing here. We were in real economic difficulty. That's why I don't." It's not a particularly revolutionary idea to think that sometimes things happen and exist without an exact source of blame. Acknowledging the existence of something being characterized as blaming someone for it is just that, a characterization.

Government might be doing them a favor by keeping them out of the trucking jobs honestly. That can be a nightmare scenario for vulnerable people being conned into leasing their impossible-to-pay-back rigs.

A good number of my family members are truckers. They're the whitest small town midwestern folk you could ever imagine. They'd be out of a job in a second if the federal government decided that they needed to be competent with even a 9th grade level of proper English communication and grammar.

I'm sure there were others similarly not following the specifically asked for and expected dress code. Of course, I don't think any of the rest of them fall into 'most powerful person in the world' territory, which comes with mores responsibility, more scrutiny, and an appropriately higher level of expectation, but c'est la vie

Remember the days when the GOP insisted that they believed in an absolute morality of right/wrong/good/evil, and it was the Democrats with their post-modern subjective values who were worth scorn? Despite Columbus being an incompetent oaf who got extraordinarily lucky, and also despite him not being the first european to discover the Americas (Leif Erikson), and despite him never setting foot on anything close to what is the United States, he was also somewhat of a monster. Here's some fun quotes and history related to Columbus: Michele de Cuneo, who participated in Columbus’s second expedition to the Americas: "“While I was in the boat, I captured a very beautiful Carib woman, whom the said Lord Admiral [Columbus] gave to me. When I had taken her to my cabin she was naked—as was their custom. I was filled with a desire to take my pleasure with her and attempted to satisfy my desire. She was unwilling, and so treated me with her nails that I wished I had never begun. But—to cut a long story short—I then took a piece of rope and whipped her soundly, and she let forth such incredible screams that you would not have believed your ears. Eventually we came to such terms, I assure you, that you would have thought that she had been brought up in a school for whores.” From a priest who traveled with Columbus: "They took infants from their mothers’ breasts, snatching them by the legs and pitching them headfirst against the crags or snatched them by the arms and threw them into the rivers, roaring with laughter and saying as the babies fell into the water, “Boil there, you offspring of the devil!" "They laid bets as to who, with one stroke of the sword, could split a man in two or could cut off his head or spill out his entrails with a single stroke of the pike." "They made some low wide gallows on which the hanged victim’s feet almost touched the ground, stringing up their victims in lots of thirteen, in memory of Our Redeemer and His twelve Apostles, then set burning wood at their feet and thus burned them alive." "They attacked the towns and spared neither the children nor the aged nor pregnant women nor women in childbed, not only stabbing them and dismembering them but cutting them to pieces as if dealing with sheep in the slaughter house" "With still others, all those they wanted to capture alive, they cut off their hands and hung them round the victim’s neck, saying, “Go now, carry the message,” meaning, Take the news to the Indians who have fled to the mountains." "We can estimate very surely and truthfully that in the forty years that have passed, with the infernal actions of the Christians, there have been unjustly slain more than twelve million men, women, and children. In truth, I believe without trying to deceive myself that the number of the slain is more like fifteen million." After an attack by more than 2,000 Indians, Columbus had an underling, Alonso de Ojeda, bring him three Indian leaders, whom Columbus then ordered publicly beheaded. Ojeda also ordered his men to grab another Indian, bring him to the middle of his village, and “‘cut off his ears’ in retribution for the Indians’ failing to be helpful to the Spaniards when fording a stream” (Bergreen, 170-171) From Columbus himself: "“There are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten are now in demand, and for all ages a good price must be paid.”" All this to a population that he claimed knew nothing of arms and beared none, were timid and meek and subservient, of which 1,000 would fall at the feet of 4 spanish. He was also stripped of all his titles and arrested and forbid from ever returning to the new world upon his arrival back to Spain. Even by the standards of his time and his own contemporaries, many considered him a horrifying monster of a man.

Lower than Ganz?

On what basis do we know that the mother wanted to take her child with her? According to whom?

I'm glad he got drafted, and surprised, but not shockingly so. I've still got a lot of skepticism that he'll ever be a meaningful piece or last long, but as with all Huskers I'm rooting for him.

IIRC, it wasn't until Callahan came around that the spring game became a big thing, as he really hyped it up and put a concerted effort towards getting huge crowds and treating it like a game to use as a big recruiting draw when nobody else was making any sort of big deal about their spring games.

The schadenfreude is fun, but ultimately the best case hope is that for the first time in his life he was rejected and told no and not protected and propped up by his dad's ego, and it will be a humbling experience he can learn and grow from. Which is why, the healthiest thing for him would be to not be drafted at all.

Yeah, I was probably wrong (wanting to give the tiniest amount of benefit of the doubt to the institution of the DOJ), and this seems to be a nothing burger that archy will spend the next however-long-its-in-the-news-cycle doing a Tucker Carlson impression obfuscating and 'just asking questions' about all the wrong things with.

It's really quite likely that it's performative fodder, weaponization of the government, AND a case of that judge breaking the letter of the law.

there are certainly some judges i can think of that i wouldn't mind being arrested for breaking the law congress members as well hell even a president!

People will try and re-write themselves looking better and knowing that Joe was slipping, but most of us either didn't know at all or did but didn't want to believe it, until the debate made it too obvious to ignore. Still, the whataboutism is bogus. Even if he was fully Weekend at Bernie's, he was surrounded by a competent cabinet successfully steering the ship in a way that was quite alright to many, and at least not notably catastrophic. A pretty uninspired distraction from Trump's lack of a grip on reality being served and slobbered over and facilitated by cronies who absolutely love playing the heel to America.

ICE Ambushed Mohsen Mahdawi in a 'Trap' and Had a 'Clear Plan to Ship Him to Louisiana' The Palestinian Columbia student’s legal team says Mahdawi signed a pledge to defend the Constitution, and then ICE showed up. Mohsen Mahdawi attended his US citizenship interview, raised his right hand, and answered all the questions asked of him, before signing a document to pledge that he was willing to “defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign, and domestic.” And then, shortly after, the immigration official he was working with walked out, saying he needed to “check” on something and he’d be right back. Masked and visibly armed ICE agents subsequently marched in and shackled Mahdawi, took him to a car, and immediately set out on “a clear plan to ship him to Louisiana,” over 1,000 miles away. That’s according to Mahdawi’s legal team in a Tuesday legal filing making a motion for his release from detention. “It was a trap,” his team concludes. Mahdawi, a green card holder, was detained by the Trump administration nearly two weeks ago. The Palestinian Columbia student had been active in pro-Palestine and pro-peace protests on campus during the last 18 months. After his arrest, a leaked memo revealed that the State Department was attempting to justify his arrest by fielding the spurious claim that he threatened the “Middle East peace process” due to his "threatening rhetoric and intimidation." Mahdawi’s lawyers call the allegations “baseless.” In a statement via his legal team on Wednesday, Mahdawi said: “I am in prison but am not prisoned. A system of democracy guarantees freedom of speech. Speaking of Palestine does not only qualify as freedom of speech but it is also about our humanity.” According to his Tuesday filing, the government was planning to send Mahdawi to Louisiana, in the same fashion it has rushed off other people it has detained in recent weeks, including Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk, as well as Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri (who is now being held in a Texas detention center). Mahdawi’s legal team told Zeteo that agents had tickets printed to transfer Mahdawi via a commercial flight from Burlington, Vermont, just hours after detaining him. The agents were apparently kind to him, but when he felt sick, they denied him medical care and insisted on taking him to the airport. Because he was feeling sick, he went to the bathroom, which subsequently made him miss the flight – perhaps the only reason he wasn’t sent to Louisiana before a judge could weigh in. His legal team said that agents had discussed driving him to Massachusetts in front of Mahdawi, but a judge had already signed a temporary restraining order that prohibited the government from moving him from the state. Still, at approximately 5:57 pm, Tuesday’s filing states – nearly three hours after a judge issued a restraining order preventing the transfer of Mahdawi – "the automated case information system for the Executive Office for Immigration Review still listed the venue of Mr. Mahdawi’s Master Calendar Hearing to be in Louisiana under Judge Sherron Ashworth” on May 1. Sending detainees to Louisiana appears to be part of the Trump administration’s effort to separate detainees from their families and legal teams, and to “shop” for judges who might be more apt to rule in favor of the attempted deportation. ICE did not immediately respond to Zeteo’s request for comment.

Usually pretty accurate. Pope Francis was a revelation and I'm quite sad we've lost his leadership and servitude in the world. Hopeful for more continuation of the Franciscan and contemplative influences in Catholicism.

We had an arab foreign exchange student at my incredibly small Nebraska high school when I was a senior. His two main nicknames (few knew his actual name) were Towelhead and Jihad, both originated by his host father and passed through the community. He was a sweet, helpful and courageous kid that put on an incredibly brave face daily, but i saw him break more than once when he thought nobody noticed. Nasty folks everywhere.