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1 hour ago, Archy1221 said:

I know.  It’s why I pointed it out for those here who don’t think it does.  Appreciate the confirmation 

And what's the 'why' behind the needless and limiting narrow scope of 'The Left'? Seems very plank in your own eye energy considering the issue is glaringly NOT an exclusive feature to them only.

20 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

I remember way way way back when Romney was “gonna put you all back in chains” and mocked for wanting to hire women in his administration if elected (binders full of women).  That he was gonna gut SS and throw grandma off a cliff.  That he was a Private Equity robber Barron that didn’t care about Black people.   Ahhhhh, but now people long for the sensible Romney
 

Remember way back in the Time Machine when McCain was just a war monger and racist for wanting to “finish the dang fence”.  When he was too old to elect.  Ohhh, but now we would all vote for them.  Gotcha. 
 

Cheney….well I mean do we really need to go down that road and see what the Left thought of her pre-Trump??  I didn’t think so.   

Yes, the Overton Window has shifted dramatically due to asymmetrical polarization largely thanks to the demented behavior of the Tea Party followed by the MAGA cult. So, I mean, thanks for being an active participant in the thing you're suddenly so bewildered by?

2 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

It’s for those Dems who accused Romney and a McCain of being s#!tty, racist, women hating, xenophobia yet now claim those folks were actually great guys.  

Oh, I mean, if the basis of our arguments is just making up imaginary characters from the past to prove a point, and refusing to delineate the specific from the general, then I guess we can all make up whatever narratives we want.

1 hour ago, Archy1221 said:

My perfectly chosen words were pointing out that it doesn’t matter who Republicans nominate, that person will be considered a racist, xenophobic, social security killing, devil spawn once the general election rolls around.  It’s a time honored tradition by the left.  

Then an election or two happens and the Left begins to say, “ well why can’t the Right nominate a good candidate like they did in the previous elections?”  

This definitely happens. Sorry to spoil the news that it happens across all sides of the political and sociological aisles, or did you forget the effigys of Obama in a noose and the veracious birtherism campaign and claims of being a marxist muslim antichrist?

100% on the side, generally speaking over the last 25 years or so, that it's not 'missed' calls as much as a deliberate lack of care or emphasis on the calls.

But with that being said, the NBA made an offseason point to focus more on traveling, palming and carrying, and the rates those have been called have gone up quite a whole lot this season. Still nowhere even in the same universe as what little you can get away with in high school and college, but better than it has historically been.

Noooo do not hype us up just let us quietly do our thing.

On 2/24/2024 at 7:53 PM, teachercd said:

One this war lasted more than a month, the notion that ussia (please remember to leave off the "R") was super strong, was gone.  

Sounds like you don't like Russia.

22 hours ago, Red Five said:

I’m curious who here is in the camp that Satt is the next Saban?  I’d love to see some examples of people claiming that.

Nobody. The poster making the claim notoriously gets off on making things up to feel good arguing against them. 

So...what's the 3?

12 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Oh I guess I didn’t realize the Mueller report, IG report AND Durham report no longer exist. 

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.”

14 hours ago, Loebarth said:

One other reality that people misunderstand about Christ's teaching. Christ did not stand against the Romans and Roman Authority, nor did he stand against the Hebrew people or the non-believers (called Goyim).

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. 

17 hours ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

I don't think Luka is underrated. I think he gets lots of attention and hyperbole, not to mention the start over Stephen Curry in the All Star game. He just won't enter the Greatness debate until his team makes a bigger splash in the playoffs. IIRC, Michael Jordan survived 7 seasons of "Big Stats, No Rings"  himself. 

 

Other players, including Jokic, are putting the bug in his ear: he may have to leave Dallas to elevate his status. 

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. 

51 minutes ago, nic said:

Ha. The AI is racist. Google paused it. 
 

https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-tech/google-pause-gemini-image-generation-ai-refuses-show-images-white-people

 

Asked to show images that celebrate the diversity and achievements of White people, the AI said it was "hesitant" to fulfill that request." 
"Historically, media representation has overwhelmingly favored White individuals and their achievements," Gemini said. "This has contributed to a skewed perception where their accomplishments are seen as the norm, while those of other groups are often marginalized or overlooked. Focusing solely on White individuals in this context risks perpetuating that imbalance."

After multiple tests White people appeared to be the only racial category that Gemini refused to show.

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.

12 hours ago, Crusader Husker said:

The real question is why can't we get a hot leader instead of two grumpy old men fighting to be our prsident.

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

13 hours ago, RedDenver said:

How in the world did they mess this up so bad that they aren't doing 8 and aren't considering 16? Morons.

8 really was the perfect number.

1 hour ago, Archy1221 said:

Looks like we have another person that proves voters do change their mind. 

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

1 hour ago, Archy1221 said:

From 1988-2012 Iowa voted for R President just one time.   This election will make three straight times.  
Colorado voted R 14/16 times since Eisenhower, till 2008 then it’s been 4 straight D tickets.  
Virginia was tried and true Red till 2008 and now it’s true Blue since.  
 

Florida would waffle back and forth a bit with a R lean on the overall amount of times.  
 

Just a few I checked out to prove this thesis of yours to be incorrect.  

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.

2 hours ago, knapplc said:

Scoggin was dismissed from the team two years ago this month, and Love was dismissed at the end of the season (but was removed from the team at the same time as Scoggin).

 

Britt Prince knew all of this before she committed to Nebraska. UNL had already done their investigation and taken the action they felt was warranted, which did not include removing Williams. This would have all been disclosed to recruits, especially someone like Prince, whose mother is also a coach. 

 

I wouldn't be too worried about Williams being ousted and losing the incoming class. 

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.

11 minutes ago, teachercd said:

That is changing minds.

 

Your mind is made up to not show and then you do...that is changing a mind.

 

in 16 they had their mind made up to NOT vote, in 20 they changed their mind.

 

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.

1 hour ago, teachercd said:

But, Joe got more votes than any other president ever, which means millions of people "changed their mind" because Hillary did NOT get that many votes, not even close...so were those 20 million mind-changers, that voted for Joe, also stupid and uninformed?  

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

5 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

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

1 hour ago, Archy1221 said:

Oh, sorry.   Always thought humor was supposed to be funny.   

Coulda fooled me with your affinity for the Babylon Bee

2 minutes ago, soup said:

I know that there will be tie breakers.  I'm just curious what they are going to be?  Usually, they are some form of best record within division, then best home record, etc.

 

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