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  2. Of course, we've already had a preview of this, when the Harlem Globetrotters narrowly avoided tragedy when their plane had to land on Gilligan's Island.
  3. Lots of people also think the Q @ Bill Miller's is a high quality offering.
  4. USC is shedding all of our competitive targets from last year, weird.
  5. Those cocksuckers will just have the government make them whole again after the market collapses.
  6. This amazing idea keeps getting better the more I think about it! AI athletes would never get old and retire. We could have the same players on every team forever. Our great-great-great grandchildren can continue to root for the AI superstars we grew up with. Utopia.
  7. It was an issue from my Android to both Apple AND other Android users. Now sorta "self resolved" whatever it was, something fixed without notice & multiple re-booting did not seem to affect the repair.
  8. I mean, unsurprising. Cuz Iowa.
  9. Re: The isolationist view of the US relative to the world. Nowhere is this view more impactful than the ignorance of the US, the people and the government, as it relates to oil and gas. The US put an oil embargo on Japan pre-1941, a country that was 100% dependent on imports. They bombed the fuck out of us. The US was late to the party, but the first thing they did was go to Africa to stop Germany's rush to the Arabian oil fields. Prior to 1973, the US was by far, the technological leader in the industry, and the availability of cheap gas across the country was a reality, and an expectation, cause "were Americans". No body cared that most of the oil came from foreign counties. The U.S. and other nations supported Israel in the Yom Kippur War. Saudi Arabia led OPEC in the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973-74, causing domestic oil prices to quadruple, from $3 to $12/bbl, triggering gas shortages, long lines at pumps, stagflation, and a major shift in global energy policy towards conservation and energy independence. (OPEC was modeled on the Texas Railroad Commission) In the US, conservation and energy independence took a back seat to blaming the domestic oil industry for something that happened half way around the world. Something they had no control, or influence over. The couldn't control oil prices, but they could control natural gas prices, a domestic industry. Government regulations controlled interstate gas prices, but not intrastate prices, eventually putting the producing states (Texas) at odds with consuming states (the Northeast). The Iranian Revolution in 1979 was directed at the US, for harboring the Shah, a US/European puppet. Oil prices quadrupled again, to over $40/bbl. Guess who was to blame. Again. This was not all bad. The spread between unregulated oil prices and regulated gas prices gave the Gas Processing Industry, a margin based business, a boost like nothing before or since. In 1979, the O&G industry attracted the best and the brightest. The advice to "The Graduate" in 1967, a single word, came to fruition; "Plastics." As a country, we have been on a 50 year crusade to methodically dismantle the 150 year old domestic industry, in large part, because people just don't understand how it works, or even care. Though there are fewer US companies and much less competition, the domestic oil & gas production is higher than ever before, and the US is still the technological leader in the industry, we just have a lot less influence on world affairs. Which is what an Isolationist wants.
  10. This was my first thought as well.
  11. Ain’t shit going to happen. Everyone has already moved on from this.
  12. Haha. I had the exact same responses but I did add the first MP3 I downloaded...I downloaded a bunch from MP3.com in the mid 90s to test that new Winamp app. The one I remember by name is "Gillian Anderson I wanna be with you".
  13. “The Ukrainian Navy, a small ragtag force of patrol boats and drones that lost its only frigate on the second day of Russia’s invasion, has effectively won the surface war on the Black Sea.”
  14. I'd be thrilled if they "may reportedly" achieve having a CEO who isn't a giant, sociopathic, malevolent lump of shit in 2026.
  15. I didn’t. That’s one of the shocking realities of brand loyalty. Loyalty is very durable and brand loyal people are, by and large, willing to put up with injury. Isn’t that weird? And yet it plays out that way over and over, at individual and population level scales. You can hurt them, over and over, and then the sun shines, and people forget.
  16. I dont recall Arch having issues with Endries and/or Livingstone. First couple games Arch and Wingo just could not connect. It was either uncatchable or dropped.
  17. "may reportedly" is the new synergy
  18. Would you like to place a wager on how long it takes before this is an actual real-deal suggestion (stop using humans for some sport, replace it with AI-generated games) by one of these "AI thought-leader" types? Shit, I'll put the over/under at 6 months. And if I'm going to wager, I'll take the under.
  19. But wait, there's more from Elon!
  20. Lot of that is also due to Wingo dropping passes, though. By and large Endries was a sure-handed receiver.
  21. Yeah I was mildly inspired by the 2022? one here but it just doesn’t feel right anymore. Shoulders, elbow, everything just hurts. Also, pushups or squats I can do just about anywhere with minimal space. I’d say the body squats should be a 20k to 30k goal.
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