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"The garbage models" just screams of a lack of understanding of the scientific method

I don't know the specific instance you're referring to but I am familiar with the argument you're making. The man being in hospice does not negate covid in his death. Someone with a pre-existing disease or autoimmune deficiency dying "from" that but having corona virus also doesn't negate the death being related to corona virus and accurately recorded as such. Not only that, but there are also under reports of COVID-19 deaths, as well. Source -

Immediately jumping to giving a thumbs up for a normal amount of country/worldwide events with 10-150,000 people is also not realistic. We will stop staying at home all the time. Business will start to go more back to normal. But we need to be careful ramping up certain "massive large gatherings" elements of society. idk about the season. Herbstreit doesn't think so, amongst many others. There's some vague writing on the wall that makes me nervous, like Oklahoma canceling all organized athletic meetings until the end of July. Dabo Swinney seems to think we'll have the season, but then again he's a selfish dips#!t who keeps taking his family on vacations in private jets during all of this.

I'm very, very out of my depths on this topic, but if this virus could somehow be a catalyst towards a future completely disarmed of nuclear weapons entirely, a global agreement not to ever make any more, and a general descaling of military spending, that would be an unquantifiable good for our planet.

That's because the mid-range jumper is wildly less efficient than either of those. I love a good mid-range game but the analytics and Curry-led revolution didn't happen without good compelling reason.

Also a very fair point, but aside from the distinction of words where he didn't say he would vote for Trump, there's also, I think, an important note of the context of his words. This wasn't Rogan getting in front of reporters or doing press trying to make a statement - this was just him shooting the s#!t off the cuff with a friend/acquaintance. Maybe he meant it 100% literally. Maybe he was being hyperbolic in a conversation. I don't know for sure but that's not an unreasonable interpretation. Rogan's show is unscripted, unpolished, live and raw. He also doesn't give a s#!t about what media/public try to say about him, in the sense that he doesn't ever clarify remarks or apologize with PR, stuff like that. Now if he really genuinely meant it, I disagree and couldn't see how he would possibly be able to vote for Trump. I'd say that's wrong, flat out. But I couldn't say the same for people unwilling to participate at all and unwilling to vote for Biden. Day by day I keep thinking more about the possibility that if Biden wins (I don't think he can, truthfully) it will be a tepid uninspired four years and might open up the floodgates to a real totalitarian who is competent, sharp, and charismatic. If I was absolutely convinced of that happening, I would not vote, or in the slightest chance maybe vote for Trump because I think the long game of surviving four more years of s#!t would be the springboard into some truly remarkable and legitimate progress.

Being anti-establishment and being a "true" progressive are not mutually exclusive things. I'd even argue they're closer to mutually inclusive. Edit: Also, let's be honest - the percentage of establishment/corporate democrats in office that would prefer Trump over Bernie isn't 0. Edit 2: Finally listened to the clip of Rogan. This is being blown out of proportion imo. He didn't say he will vote for Trump, he said (in response to someone saying they can't vote for Biden, but also can't vote for Trump), that he'd rather vote for Trump than Biden. I don't think that's meant to be taken literally. Third independent thought - knapp keeps making mention about how this election is different than all the others of the last 100 years. Which is true. Which, to me, begs the question - if this election is so different, then why is Biden doing the exact same thing as all the loser Democrat presidential nominees of the last few decades? Biden, Clinton, Kerry, Gore - all felt entitled to people's votes even with uninspiring bland policy, and all lost because of their arrogance. Biden literally tells people not to vote for him, and in spirit dares people not to. This election is different, yet the Dem establishment is trotting out the same tested and failed approach.

Again, haven't heard/seen the bit about him voting for Trump, but here's he himself: He's also for single payer healthcare, comprehensive prison reform, free public college, UBI, etc. - also the first minute of this one:

Rogan isn't libertarian, he's pretty left and he admits as much often. He gets painted as "alt-right adjacent" because he's willing to have controversial people on and be friends/cordial with people that society wants to make out to be boogeymen, but Rogan himself is pretty left. He also hasn't been employed by Dana White, or anybody, for years and years. That being said I haven't heard/seen the clip so I can't comment on it specifically.

There are millions of gen z/millenial votees that will likely stay home, but might not if he widens his umbrella leftwards. At least being open and gracious and communicative with those votes instead of condescending and snide as we're seeing more instances of lately.

I may or may not have experience hot boxing a gas mask.

No, I don't. This is a free country where I choose to participate. I don't have to vote for anyone. I don't have to contribute to a broken system if I don't want to. Unless you're Joe Biden, in which case no need to try earning votes, just blame any potential failure on the passive voters?

No, THIS is extremely passive. How about being pragmatic instead of noble and righteous? Who cares if people have to be convinced; CONVINCE THEM! This election is different, remember? This is no time to stand firm in integrity and responsibility admonishing the bad people. Get the bad people on your side. Con them. Do whatever it takes to make sure that we beat Trump. Trying to earn votes is effective and active. Sitting around saying, "Look there's nothing to be done either people are smart or they're dummies and if they're dummies then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ " is passive and doesn't accomplish anything.

Yeah, and since it's different and of the utmost importance to defeat Trump, Biden's team better be bending over backwards turning over every stone trying to find ways to get the votes of people not convinced of him.

TIL that a presidential candidate shouldn't have to earn your vote.

Things don't have to be analogous to have similarities.

If you're talking to me, I didn't call him the GOAT, in fact I clearly stated the opposite. Try reading again.

They'd both be much better than Trump. I'm committed to helping vote for whoever will get Trump out. However, I can't imagine a more uninspiring candidate than Biden. I'll shuffle my feet to the polls, let out a big sigh, and reluctantly check off the box then drive home in silence lol. Bernie isn't the same. If we had a more equitable and just and sensible election process, Bernie would be the runaway nominee. It's the antiquated bloat of boomers holding him back He would've crushed Trump if he was the nominee. I'm not even convinced Biden will come close to beating him. They're both political outsiders taking it to the establishment.

Jordan is no slouch. Still one of the smartest ever imo. But his game was more of a solo weapon of scoring and domination. That's not even close to all it was, but compared to Lebron, who's always embraced a more facilitating/floor general form of basketball, I'd probably give him the nod as far as being a mastermind manipulating the game around him. tbh Lebron is pretty much the head coach of every team he's on. He's never had the benefit of a Phil Jackson and subsequent system, and it shows with how every team he's ever left has completely fallen apart.

I didn't get to watch Jordan as an 'adult', but grew up watching his last threepeat and Wizards years from age 7-13 or something like that. Have watched a lot of games on youtube/espn classic/etc. though.

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https://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+is+virtue+signaling

I disagree with this. I and many around me often criticize people on the basis of virtue signaling. Not because (in my opinion) we lack virtue, but because we're comfortable and secure in our virtue and find it annoying and silly to see people be performative in signaling their virtue. I see this behavior nonstop on twitter. The millenial urban creative profession/gig economy twitterspheres are probably particularly full of this type of behavior.

I think I remember two more times Beck tried running the 'trick' double option. Neither worked, I think both were in situations where there would have been a high expectation of some trickery or something daring like a late needed two point conversion or something. But yeah, Beck was always a confusing one. The lack of diamond formation still makes no sense to me, especially because it was good for 10+ yards pretty much every time we ran it.

Without googling I think Jason White won the Heisman in 2001 which was the ye---- Wait. Nevermind. Eric Crouch won the Heisman in 2001 lol. Jason White won in 2003, we didn't play Oklahoma that year. Bradford we played in Norman though in '08 you're right.