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Yeah, Russia did not withdraw from Kyiv because their tank columns were destroyed and their logistics sucked so bad they had no ammo or gas - they withdrew because of requests from Europe….and got played by Ukraine. V-boggers sympathetic to the war did not like what Putin said in China. Several bloggers noted that the entire meeting was to show that China was now the center of power, and that people like Putin were vassals. One of the pro military bloggers said that he felt humiliated by Putin telling the world that Europe and Ukraine played Russia. That is not the look of the leader of anti-western countries, but the sad story of being made a chump and telling it on yourself in front of your boss. Another V blogger said that Moscow was filled with festivals that were all free, and there was free music and art and everyone in Moscow had never had more to do for free. The blogger liked it to a woman who bought and wore a beautiful expensive dress, even though her husband lost a limb in combat and her children had nothing to eat, but she had a pretty dress and went to the party anyway. This was on Constantine’s Inside Russia YouTube channel, and he said the degree of criticism of Putin by the pro military V bloggers was the most extreme he had seen. Apparently Russians don’t seem to care so much if everyone views them as war criminals, just as long as they are viewed as powerful war criminals who are respected and feared.
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Bill Snyder created the model for teams like OSU, ISU, KSU, TT, BU, TCU, etc. ; 1. Get a great coach. 2. Schedule non-conference patsies, at home, so you have a 3-0 or 4-0 baseline to start the season with. 3. Run a program that teaches and develops talent. 4. Build stability by winning 6-8 games per year, and make a run at a conference championship every few years. Snyder wasn’t the first guy with the ability to do this. He was the first one after college football media revenue was upended after the ‘80s OU/UGA lawsuit. After that, media was negotiated by conferences, and weaker programs in major conferences could actually afford to play patsies. Before that, teams like OSU and KSU relied on gate for revenue, and had to play good teams. Really, check out old schedules- non-conference used to be real teams, because they needed the gate. Gundy, like Patterson, Briles, Leach, Mangino, Campbell and Snyder before him, took advantage of this era. Small programs still didn’t have the resources of blue bloods, but if they were in the right conference, they had enough TV revenue to fund closer to the big schools, and were given steady games against their conference’s blue bloods, to stay in the public eye and keep boosters engaged. When they hit on a coaching hire, they made sure they paid well enough to keep him, if he was inclined to consider staying. That era is over. Disparities in revenue once again mean disparities in competitiveness, and by an even greater amount. In (what I’ll call) the Snyder era, teams knew they needed to pay their star coaches top dollar, to keep them. Now, they ask those same coaches to surrender seven figures of salary to fun NIL. It will just get worse for B12 schools, because their next media contract will reflect an even greater discrepancy. It’s a new era, and what worked in the last era for OSU doesn’t necessarily work in the new one.
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Texas Football 2025 - Playing With Our Food
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Highlights: -The OL with new roles and new starters, limited in experience, isn't gelling yet. PFF says that several of them are fucking terrible. This will not get fixed or improve. -Fire Flood. -Texas lacks explosive players on offense and will have trouble scoring all year. -Arch Manning throws too many deep balls. -Arch Manning is completing 50% of his deep balls. -The game has caught up and passed the Steve Sarkisian offense by, like it was standing still. -This is not a championship caliber team because of the QB. -This is not a championship caliber team because of the lack of explosive players on offense. -This is not a championship caliber team because of the offensive line and Flood. -This defense isn't stingy enough and apparently gives up too many points. -The TEs are terrible blockers. -Nick Townsend is an awesome blocker. -
Oh no, the man who has enriched his family by billions of dollars this year still owes $83M. How will he afford it?
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Probably not a lot of Asians in Stonewall
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This could be posted on other threads but it's succinct here. This is Trump's America. A big fuck you to everyone, including the dipshits who voted for him.
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Give him another year or so and whatever dumb ass wr coach sark has, will have that coached out of him.
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It's why he's already lost interest in this war. Putin made him look like a fool with the Alaskan summit. Went right back to Moscow and kept doing the same thing. And instead of getting tough with Putin, which was the obvious next step, tfg has pretended like it just didn't happen, closed the pipeline of new weapons, and washed his hands of it so he can turn around and make war on American citizens. Infuriating on all counts. But taco gonna taco. It's as I was saying to all the optimists upthread. We know who he is and he will never be any different. Anything else is just wish casting.
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I wouldn't even quit my job.
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yeah, Jurassic Park is really about the technical aspects. It was a huge leap that shocked audiences but I'm not sure it is a genre.
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I'm not quite sure that what he did fell under "official acts of the president".
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The defense is great, just not great enough given how inconsistent the offense is. The offense is clearly the weaker performing unit. I don’t believe the D can carry this team yet, I could see OU scoring 20-30 on it. Time will tell.
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Texas Football 2025 - Playing With Our Food
6th Street replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
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Making a tarp sail is really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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Thing$ $till not going well for Joe Rogan, I $ee.
DDD Dad replied to Parliament's topic in Cloak Room
When it comes from official government sources it's even harder to maintain that cognitive discipline. -
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Markets still falling like whoa
ImNotMarkinson replied to Llano Estacado's topic in Business and Markets
my dimming view of the way our economy is structured has made some gains lately. the rich get richer. so i turned to VUG to invest in the 'rich.' NVDA NVIDIA Corp. 67066G104 2379504 12.64 % 230,706,147 $41,035,702,367 MSFT Microsoft Corp. 594918104 2588173 12.18 % 74,117,576 $39,541,726,796 AAPL Apple Inc. 037833100 2046251 9.48 % 148,279,689 $30,778,415,046 AMZN Amazon.com Inc. 023135106 2000019 6.72 % 93,240,602 $21,828,557,334 META Facebook Inc. Class A 30303M102 B7TL820 4.62 % 19,403,615 $15,007,531,986 AVGO Broadcom Inc. 11135F101 BDZ78H9 4.39 % 48,482,228 $14,239,230,364 GOOGL Alphabet Inc. Class A 02079K305 BYVY8G0 3.34 % 56,442,683 $10,831,350,868 TSLA Tesla Inc. 88160R101 B616C79 2.69 % 28,277,687 $8,717,162,571 GOOG Alphabet Inc. Class C 02079K107 BYY88Y7 2.67 % 44,992,482 $8,677,250,079 LLY Eli Lilly & Co. 532457108 2516152 2.01 % 8,821,196 $6,528,302,524 that's about 60% of its makeup. versus something like VOO, which has a composition like this: NVDA NVIDIA Corp. 67066G104 2379504 8.06 % 603,678,512 $107,376,296,929 MSFT Microsoft Corp. 594918104 2588173 7.37 % 183,983,732 $98,155,321,022 AAPL Apple Inc. 037833100 2046251 5.76 % 369,718,204 $76,742,407,604 AMZN Amazon.com Inc. 023135106 2000019 4.11 % 233,888,096 $54,755,542,155 META Facebook Inc. Class A 30303M102 B7TL820 3.12 % 53,743,894 $41,567,677,375 AVGO Broadcom Inc. 11135F101 BDZ78H9 2.57 % 116,390,989 $34,184,033,469 GOOGL Alphabet Inc. Class A 02079K305 BYVY8G0 2.08 % 144,069,236 $27,646,886,388 GOOG Alphabet Inc. Class C 02079K107 BYY88Y7 1.68 % 116,209,996 $22,412,259,829 BRK.B Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Class B 084670702 2073390 1.61 % 45,392,119 $21,419,633,114 TSLA Tesla Inc. 88160R101 B616C79 1.61 % 69,365,314 $21,383,245,347 that's 38% of its makeup. flatter at the top to be more diversified in VOO and SPY and what not. VUG being heavier for the biggest winners has allowed me to outpace most stuff, and still stay basically broad in an ETF way. VUG v VOO, below. anyhow, that's one nice thing about our oligarchy. they're going to oligarch. might as well hop on. -
Grading the Houston Texans in Their Loss to the Los Angeles Rams
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Holy shit, Gun Jesus has a scuba channel https://www.youtube.com/@DeepDiveWithIan
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Cool. Please provide the proof that the boat blasted was drug runners. And that everyone on board was Venezuelan. Just executing the fuck out of people without an actual adjudication that they are committing a crime is....a problem for societies that have this thing called "the Rule of Law." These are not combatants, attacking or conducting preparations for an attack on the US. They are - even if the accusation is true - just criminals transporting drugs. Do we get to blast any suspected "drug dealers" in US waters? On US streets? When RFK Jr. was dealing drugs in college, would it have been okay to have hit him with a Hellfire missile? What about that guy who someone just accuses of dealing drugs, but really, the accusation is a lie?
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