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Oh no, the grass will never recover from the violence. Some other gems in the replies from the OP:

Very cool.

Why do all of these so called champions of the free market turn around and act like little whiny b!^@h victims when the market forces decide that their products are s#!t? It's the same energy as kids playing in the cul de sac and the kid that makes up the new game keeps inventing new rules when he's not winning and then rage quits.

Has there been a single game all season on the reguular big ten network or any other non paywalled network? I've been fairly invested in keeping up with their success but refuse to pay for B1G+ and feel like I've never been able to watch.

This might (mostly) be the case now, but seemingly always wasn't so. SSO has had a series of relatively informed/insider accounts of the state of NIL over the last few years: https://herbieshangout.com/2023/12/22/nebraska-and-the-collective/ https://herbieshangout.com/2022/12/22/nil-reality-for-nebraska/ https://herbieshangout.com/2023/01/09/we-arent-getting-you-here-with-our-nil-bid-with-that-said-we-aint-losing-a-bidding-war/ Some highlights: The reality is the fact that Nebraska was probably closer to 50th in terms of what we were paying guys and how we were organized. Don’t forget, we grabbed Trey Palmer by telling him he would sell NFTs to our fans among other things: PRESENTING… Nebraska x Trey Palmer NFT. LIMITED quantities of these NFTs will be available for purchase beginning Saturday, April 9th at 12 PM CST until Sunday, April 17th https://t.co/IroV6Oktqe #PoweredByABM @treythekiid3 — Athlete Branding & Marketing (@_ABMusa_) April 8, 2022 That site can’t even be reached anymore. We did a little better grabbing guys like Ben Scott, Billy Kemp, and Jeff Sims the following year. But lost out bidding wars for guys like Walter Rouse to Oklahoma. Things just weren’t right. We needed a ton of help. 1890 Collective I apologize for the language, but it was a f#&%ing s#!t show for Nebraska and NIL collectives the first 2 years. Luckily we had some of Nebraska’s most powerful donors Tom and Shawn Peed decide to reach out and ask what they could do to help. With Matt Davison no longer in a football role with the University, and having a pretty extensive resume for fundraising in different capacities, it almost made too much sense for them to have him heading the efforts of 1890. After all, Matt had already been doing most of the heavy lifting for securing the funds for the new football facility. Him being an alum helped, as he was going to have to have conversations with players on what the football team can do for them. And by the way, if football doesn’t work out, look what playing for the team can do for you like it did for him. There was only one problem, Nebraska was trying to do it the way the NCAA intended it to be. We would talk to recruits and say “you can tweet about Runza” or other companies like that. “We have so much fan support here that as soon as you take off businesses will be lining up to get you in a commercial.” It made sense, there’s a ton of support for our beloved Cornhuskers. What Nebraska didn’t see coming was the fact that many schools were going to just give recruits money to sign. No need for the tweet or to spend time on a commercial, just ink your name and we are good. Want me to really blow your mind? So we figured out that we needed to pay people to just come here… and we did a great job at that shortly after. Casey Thompson commits and Trey Palmer comes on up with Mickey with a sweet NIL deal. Only one problem, we actually ran out of money. Don’t believe me? One of our top transfers was told he had to wait to sign for us to get the cash to him. It’s almost too crazy to believe, but i’ll add some more points to this to let you guys see just how far behind we were. We were scrambling to scrape up any booster donations we could get to add a few more pieces. According to On3 sports, Nebraska only had one player on the top 100 for NIL dollars, and that was Trey Palmer. You have schools like Illinois, Purdue, Minnesota, Northwestern, all with guys that according to On3 have higher NIL grades/deals than our top guy. Now, do I fully believe the valuations and those things on there? No, but they aren’t as far off as us being #3 18 months ago for NIL then finishing with the worst class since joining the conference. So again, either we are really good at NIL and just don’t promote that we are which would be the dumbest thing ever, or we just aren’t there yet.

I played in a bunch of intramural soccer games on that field. It's a hell of a time when it's nice and an absolutely hellish time when it's cold and windy.

What do we want? Primetime! When do we want it? Uh, at primetime!

Console video game sales are 70-80% digital, so I don't see how this could even be a thing.

Manifesto of the manic immolating man: https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/i-have-set-myself-on-fire-outside

"I've got an idea for sweat shops... air conditioning!"

Useful idiots and conscious allies aren't the same thing.

Those are all givens and none of them would have resulted in such a high profile conversation. Movements are blunt instruments and often have blunt instrument terminology or sound bytes. "Make the police better" does not center a nationwide conversation, just like, "Black people shouldn't be disadvantaged" or "women want equal rights as men" similarly don't really move much of a galvanizing needle. Anyone that thought Defund the Police was literal is an idiot or actively looking for a reason to be in opposition, and even those folks and the ones who disapprove of the language having a disagreeing response to it ultimately makes the intent behind the slogan successful.

Ultimately, media and information literacy is achievable but only with good education and a desire to want to be literate and engage with the parts of your brain that require more resources. Start with the basics (is there an author and a date, are the sources documented and verifiable, is there editorialization in the writing, etc.) then move on to cross referencing, aggregating different perspectives or at least different sources and so on. I haven't tested it, but something like this site is potentially a promising development in our current journey of journalistic erosion and social media noise. https://ground.news/ It tries to give a complete picture of not just the story but the coverage of the story, giving multiple perspectives and revealing bias amongst and across different platforms.

Learn the difference between how to compare and how to equate.

I fairly frequently see comments in relation to fighter jets along these lines of, "it's lightyears ahead" or "the platform is tremendous" or whatever. As someone that knows literally nothing about jets, can somebody fill me in? Like it can fly, shoot, track, is fast, etc. But jets have been able to do that for decades, so what's the deal?

Those people who took out student loans are to blame.

There's a decent contingent of folks who feel outnumbered and use the laugh emoji as a troll job to feel better. Best to just laugh it off yourself and keep scrolling.

Bingo. It's a question of efficacy towards the end goals of actual peace and safety, and how best to navigate through with deft statecraft, not resorting to a, "well they started it and we are just defending ourselves" narrative which, while true, is playing into the hands of escalation that your enemies want.

I hear you, but essentially the north stadium expansion (which was the home for the team) was named the Tom and Nancy Osborne Center or complex or whatever, and since we no longer use it for the team they're more or less just "moving" the name to the new facility.

It's about time struggling and even relatively stable citizens start benefitting from taxpayer funded relief the same way the ultra rich and massive corporations do. Interesting editorial from Phil calling the 750k people with 20+ years of repayment the biggest winners, since they're neither the biggest by number of people impacted, amount of money impacted, or amount of income impacted. I'd say the 16 million people having interest waived and the 360,000 significantly poorer folks having a much larger chunk of their financial burden relieved are both bigger winners in different perspectives.

I didn't even know he was sick!

It's important to remember/understand that progress at the societal level is a slow inching progress, and in large part comes via blunt instruments. Not everything that seems outrageous and too far and unreasonable and delusional in present time ends up affecting change down the line, but everything that does affect change down the line did seem outrageous/too far/unreasonable/delusional at the time.

Depends on how you define peace. There have been moments of relative levels of peace for varyingly short windows of time in the past and there can be more of those in the future.

No it isn't.

Well that's because it's a hoax.