Lorewarn

Yeah, It absolutely tracks that you have forgotten the existence of reports saying things like, "“numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign.”, “a Russian entity carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.”, “[a] statement that the investigation did not establish particular facts does not mean there was no evidence of those facts.”, and “investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts.”

We might be quibbling over semantics, but I would disagree with this. Jesus, and his follwers, spent a good deal of time and teaching in active (albeit non-violent and subversive) opposition to Rome and to the controlling Jewish religious leaders. Even the fact that the books documenting his story are called gospels is a very clever bit of scathing satire towards Caesar, as it was the Roman Empire that would pass out good news, ie 'gospel', pamphlets to newly conquered regions explaining how life abundant was to come from belonging to the kingdom of the god king (w a miraculous birth story) of Rome.

Man I would so put a flight on the credit card if we got seeded in Omaha.

I don't see governments as being all that different than religious institutions. Both entities, as well as plenty of others, are all manifestations of the same collision between two forces: Force #1 is consciousness. Ever since we developed the ability to be conscious, we've been trying to figure out what to do with consciousness because it is a serious problem and in one way of looking at it, the source of all our problems. Force #2 is the innate fear and desperation people face in response to consciousness, being all too willing to ask and beg someone or something else to make their decisions for them, because freedom and the responsibility that comes with it are both frightening ideas. Good systems, and good actors within those systems, whether they be governing bodies, churches, schools, non-profits and so forth, are ones which ultimately serve towards the means of empowering. Empowering autonomy, intuition, sovereignity, responsibility and freedom. These systems point everyone to an eventual destination of, "You need nothing other than you." I think this was Jesus' whole idea. Bad systems are ones which convince you that you need them and only them and position themselves in such a way to manipulate and control you (often subconsciously) into participation. In this way, governments are frequently not that different than mafias, and churches are frequently not that different than cults.

We all know the type of guy who can absolutely dominate a pickup game because of immense talent and skill. That's Luka. Tenacious with talent and training, but lacking in the illustrious "X" factor of leadership and greatness that makes everyone around him great towards actual wins and team success. Style of game is very different, but style of character isn't much different than a James Harden, Russell Westbrook, etc.

These censoring protocols early in the AI pipelines are silly and not well thought out. However, the people mocking this the loudest are the same people that laughed at the idea that algorithms and protocols could be racist against actual minorities due to the origin and bias of their creators and maintainers.

In America, hot and crazy have a direct causal relationship. Everyone knows this.

8 really was the perfect number.

Individual voters never changing their mind wasn't ever the premise put forth.

Pretty limited analysis based off a causal implication that the state's results changing were the byproduct of voters changing minds rather than a host of other variable factors.

It's important to keep in mind that this isn't an investigative article, but rather just reporting on the lawsuit itself. The lawsuit is just her lawyers being able to say and claim anything they want. If true, it's a horrifying scenario and everyone complicit should be appropriately punished. At the same time, there is currently no fact checking or editorial/truth telling standards being applied to this one sided claim, so who knows.

Since it seems that you understand the distinction it also seems abundantly clear what he's talking about vs what he's not talking about.

It's not people changing their minds, it's people showing up.

Why is this a thing being voted on in the first place?

Coulda fooled me with your affinity for the Babylon Bee

According to the official conference press release when they announced the upcoming schedules, they said, "Tiebreaking procedures will be announced later.".

Glad he got to see long enough to see his creation reach its absolute pinnacle of notoriety.

This might be the most Orwellian thing I've ever seen

Frost crying to the refs at the end of one or maybe several Iowa games out of sheer anxiety frustration and looking for someone to blame it on was pretty unbecoming.

Troy and Joe are the most forgettable but fine/non-offensive commentating crew I can ever remember. Can't tell their voices apart and don't know that I could ever recall a single iconic call or moment associated with them in memory. Michaels needs to hang it up, he's got no passion left. Collinsworth irks plenty of people the wrong way but I think that's just because they've heard him for so long and gotten tired of his specific nature - overall I think he's pretty great at what he does, it's just gotten too familiar.

Just guessing but probably the fact that it's not 'a new low' as Gallup claimed it to be, as there was a 24% in 2022.

Question 1, why are there quotations? lol Question 2, what about legalizing and decriminalizing drugs?

It's not dissimilar to athleticism. Raw talent you're born with or not can be and is a huge factor, but there's also a *ton* you can do to train and learn and get better as a singer.

This is incredible S-Tier social media presence by his communications staff. So funny.

Taylor's certainly a part of it, and it'd be disingenuous of anyone to suggest otherwise.