Lorewarn

What is "basketball"?

It's surely something to see the folks so out of breath about 'identity politics' end up being the folks going the most full send into cult of personality because, "he gets us".

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.

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? 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. 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.

Sounds like you don't like Russia.

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

So...what's the 3?

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.".