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4 hours ago, teachercd said:

First,,,"requiring" someone to go through replacement is illegale (which is is, you can;t force another humane to take drugs)

Yes you can lol. Try getting into college without a plethora of vaccines.

4 hours ago, JJ Husker said:

C’mon. This deal is not this hard. If you’re a man who has transitioned to being a woman, you don’t get to compete against women. Period. Now that’s settled, we can figure out how trans that want to play sports can. Personally I don’t care but this charade that has occurred in women's swimming is not the solution. It’s a mockery. It’s a joke.

Maybe you're right in regards to trans women. I don't know the answer and I even lean on the side of it not being fair for them to compete in women's leagues past a certain competitive level. But it's hard to approach the conversation seriously when you legitimize an absurd "what if a bunch of dudes say they're girls and then wanna go play volleyball?" imaginary question.

1 hour ago, JJ Husker said:

Other sports is what I was thinking. He was poo pooing it because it’s womens swimming and nobody really cares about that. But what if a 6’-6” trans woman started playing volleyball for one of our B1G rivals? 

I don't know. What if they did? It's no worse of an issue than this one, and it's not like swimming is a trans athlete gateway drug. Just don't understand how that's a slope - the opportunity is already there.

51 minutes ago, teachercd said:

Agreed...what is to say the UCLA men's VB team won't just say "You know what, this year we are all girls"...

 

I know it sound stupid and it is but what do you do?  Do you say "Nooooo, you are not girls"

I mean, the first thing you do is understand that the NCAA requires athletes switching gender categories to go through a year of hormone replacement therapy before they can compete. 

Maybe the next thing you do is start by figuring out how to differentiate between trans women and hypothetical imaginary men in wigs tucking their junk in playing Juwanna Mann. There's a good and tough conversation to be had about one.

17 minutes ago, JJ Husker said:

It’s a slippery slope issue.

A slope to what?

8 minutes ago, B.B. Hemingway said:

There’s a lot of odd/s#!tty things you can lay at the door of the Republican Utopia, but letting men dominate women in women’s sports isn’t one of them. It fits here just fine.

Just because someone says something isn't part of the Democrat Utopia doesn't mean that they're implying it's part of the Republican one.

The world isn't a binary defined by the two major american political parties lol.

On 3/17/2022 at 3:07 PM, Archy1221 said:

Ro voted to impeach someone in 2018 for not sending weapons fast enough to Ukraine even though he didn’t actually want them sent.   

I think he actually voted to impeach someone in 2018 for engaging in an illegal quid pro quo.

3 hours ago, ColoradoHusk said:

This swimmer dominating as a woman, when she was average as a guy is an interesting situation.  I understand that being trans-gender is not an easy life for those who are going through it, and I can understand that they want to have the right to compete.  However, this trans-gender woman has an advantage over other women, based on her testosterone and overall physical make-up.  It's not a fair competition IMO, but I don't have an easy answer to this issue.

I agree it's not a fair competition, but how do you exactly solve the problem? Lebron James has an advantage over me and all other men based off of his physical make-up he was genetically born with and that's also not a fair competition. We're the same sex and gender so there's no inherent problem the same as there is for trans people, but it's messy business trying to find a way to codify a rule for this specific problem in a way that is fair and equitable.

51 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

More has to do with what changed with Ro from 2018 to 2022 (besides with party had the Presidency) 

The circumstances of an actual hostile armed invasion do tend to have the effect of people changing strategy.

3 hours ago, Scarlet said:

More from Agent Gabbard.  

 

And for those counting Ukraine is in Europe not Asia 

What the f#&% are they even trying to say here? Especially the host, claiming you're not allowed to express any reservation of launching into a land war in Asia? Did I miss the deep state democrat state media narrative that they want to put boots on the ground? 

50 minutes ago, PasstheDamnBallGuy said:

People here dont care as much about the team as the majority of the state of Nebraska does. Maybe I'm just missing it but ive barely seen anything here in Austin as far as players doing ads. 

Hard to know for sure, but I think the strategy is different when you're in the middle of a major urban center with lots of other interests. The Austin metro population is more than our entire state, and there are plenty of people interested in things other than UT sports (although I'm sure there are still plenty of fans, just the percentage is dilluted). Would make more sense in that way to focus on deals that help your program win moreso than deals that are gonna make for good advertisements for your BBQ place when tons of folks don't know who the spokesperson is.

3 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

Just listened to the Casey Thompson interview.  One thing he said caught me.  He said a bunch of players (like 70-80 players across all sports) are given cars and apartments.  That adds up pretty fast.  12 months at $1,500 is $18,000 just on an apartment.  Maybe you throw in a $50,000 car.  Then you're at $68,000.  A few other deals and you're at $100,000.

 

I found it interesting that he mentioned women's basketball.  Hmmm....I'm guessing Jaz Shelley is living pretty well.

If I was a company looking to gift/pay players, an apartment would be the last thing I'd offer. They already have room and board paid for, and if they live off campus they just get a check cut for the room & board amount (which is almost always significantly more than they'll pay in rent with some roommates off campus)

2 hours ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

You're being intentionally dense here.

This could work for 99% of responses in 'conversation' with archy without all the rest of the stuff.

4 hours ago, knapplc said:

When we all know the answer to "what more should we do?" is an escalation that likely leads to World War III, it's logical to see those questions from right-leaning posters as loaded.

 

Notice no one has an answer to that question. It's tangential criticism, and it does nothing to help the situation. 

Whatever's said on a Nebraska football messageboard has no bearing on helping or hurting the situation.

Plenty of people just aren't experts or even laymen when it comes to good 21st century foreign policy strategy and geopolitics to know if what we are doing is good, bad, enough, dangerous, foolish, etc. There's always more you can do, and the line of how much and what type of 'more' that leads to nuclear winter isn't abundantly clear, so it's a natural thought process for anyone.

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The best is definitely Red Baron brick oven crust style. There's also some new detroit-style types I've seen at wal-mart that are really good and will really fill you up.

3 hours ago, nic said:

He cancelled the space shuttle program which was doing it

This was already disproven twice before you posted, and once more (now twice) after you've said it, so let's leave that point dead shall we?

3 hours ago, nic said:

 Obama started to pull the the plug on NASA funding.... I was working on the CEV when the funding got pulled during the Obama admin. I was bummed. 

Was there anything going on in the world during Obama's early tenure as President that might be related to lack of funding? 

Like a global economy crash or anything? 

3 hours ago, JJ Husker said:

Does this mean you do not dislike the Russian invader targets? You are at odds with Silicon Valley on that point?

 

Also, if you preface something as  “actual news”, might be best to not dwell on something Facebook did. I wasn’t aware Facebook was still a thing rational people used.

I'm not a fan of russian invaders but I am at odds with "Silicon Valley" on how inconsistent they are while masquerading as a neutral arbiter of acceptable and unacceptable language.

Also there's 3 billion people on Facebook. Sure, less than half the world is probably rational but that would presume that only the non-rational half of the entire globe are the ones with Facebook accounts, which obviously aren't true.

4 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Simple question…..Do you think “don’t say gay bill” accurately describes the bill?  

I have no idea. Not familiar with the bill and only recently have heard the slogan for the bill.

Do you think a news article editorializing one (minority) perspective on a hot-button topic as being the only right one has a leg to stand on whining about other news falling short of a gold journalism standard?

10 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/media-outlets-adopt-activist-dont-say-gay-label-for-florida-bill-on-schools/

 

If Republicans had decided to call the Democrats’ recent abortion bill — on demand, until crowning, paid for by taxpayers — the “Let’s Kill Babies” bill (though pretty accurate, actually), no major news agency would have allowed those words to creep into their reporting, much less used it in a headline. If liberals want to engage in hyperbole, that’s their business, but how can we trust outlets that shamelessly regurgitate their propaganda? (That’s rhetorical.)

• Editorializes one single perspective on abortion as actually being true

• Asks how we can trust outlets that shamelessly do the same thing

That mean's I've got 4 more years to stay on my parents' phone plan to make sure I stay better than Stephen Miller.

the former guy

Team USA jersey guy is absolutely lit

Not sure how Superman, Aquaman, Green Lantern and others would be able to work with the same tone. The Batman and Joker are both incredibly grounded films because the respective characters aren't actual superheroes. Start throwing in alien demigod powers, talking to fish, being able to conjure magic etc. and that doesn't really work.

Or maybe it could, but I could not envision any of those characters in Matt Reeve's film.

Also, when have we ever kicked off at 10a?

2 hours ago, JJ Husker said:

Biden and the dems will likely be routed in upcoming elections but it will be due to the economy and not much else. Doesn’t matter which party is in charge, with this inflation and gas prices where they’ll be, those perceived in charge will pay for it in the election booth.

I don't agree with this at all.

If Russia never invades Ukraine, Gas stays under $3 a gallon, and the inflation/supply chain issues got shored up, Biden and the dems would still lose the house and senate in the midterms.

Because it doesn't actually have to do with those things at all, that's just a convenient "why" answer to distract from it being due to a rigged aka gerrymandered game.

For once I am not disappointed with the Nebraska fanbase as a whole  the attitudes towards alcohol and even gambling are much better than I anticipated them to be.

At B1G media days they just have two people walking the floor looking for hands and passing the mic to them, usually while the current question is in the process of being asked so as not to waste time. Seems to work just fine.