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Goredho

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  1. I think we will be ok. This team and especially Arch were the subject of ridiculous expectations. There is no way they could have been met without a first year starter doing what only 3 people have done in the history of college football: finish #1 with a national championship, win the heisman and be drafted #1. Well, that pressure is off Arch and this team now, and they can hopefully develop “normally” without the ridiculous hype. We were 1-5 on 4th downs, +4 in penalties (2 providing first downs on their first scoring drive), and +1 on turnovers with really poor play from our QB and we lost by a touchdown on the road to #3. I think that bodes well for being able to tighten things up over the rest of our non-conference schedule and finish strong. I will be pretty surprised if this does not prove to be Arch’s worst game of the year.
  2. Arch sucked today. The guy people predicted would lead Texas to a national championship, take home a heisman and be drafted first overall before he had any meaningful experience had a shitty start to the season. He had nowhere to go but down and he went down hard, like it was his first day in prison. Today’s Arch would have lost to last year’s GA and Ohio State’s teams. He’d have an 0-3 record against them just like Ewers did. As it is, he’s 0 and 1 against elite competition in his young career. It will be interesting to see where he’s at in November against GA after he has had some time to develop without the ridiculous expectations.
  3. Most realtors I know are people who want to be entrepreneurs but don't have much to bring to the entrepreneurial table other than a desire to be entrepreneurs.
  4. This deserved to be repeated. The leadership we have at the national level has had to pass the test of public scrutiny and acceptance at multiple levels over more than a decade. This is what the U.S. has said it wants. Repeatedly. Over and over, prevailing attitudes in myself and on these forums notwithstanding. Its a really interesting time to be alive. The context of the times gives rise to all sorts of philosophical quandaries, such as: if a majority of people in a democracy want to end democracy, is it tyranny to force them to live under continued democracy?
  5. I don’t want my personal observations/experiences to imply that I don’t believe anyone who is experiencing GD is not doing so for their own personal and legitimate reasons. Or that no one should be trans or have their life’s happiness at the end of a transition. There are absolutely people who are and should. Their right to self determination should not be infringed. I only mean that in my personal experience, there are a lot more people experiencing GD than previous generations, and that for those that I personally know, being trans seems to have more to do with fitting in with an online crowd than a personal journey of self discovery and determination.
  6. Isn't it also ridiculous that Haitians are eating pets en masse in Ohio? That Jade Helm was an attempt by the federal government to subjugate red states? That the Clintons murdered everyone they did business with? That public schools are installing litter boxes to accommodate furries? That Los Angeles and DC are undergoing unprecedented crime so as to warrant occupation by federal forces? There are malevolent forces instilling ideas in the populace to engineer social discord literally all. the. time. Where would they stop? What line is a line uncrossable? The only thing that would prevent them from not just exploiting gender dysphoria but engineering it is the means to engineer it. Knowing what is possible with AI at scale, I am not sure those means don't exist. We are living in a multi-tentacled psyop to upend the United States that has been engineered by malevolent forces from both inside and outside the country. Feel free to make your arguments that this isn't the case, I will certainly consider them.
  7. I have posted in another thread about how I've known several kids who have come out as trans to their parents. While it's their journey to determine if their gender dysphoria is legitimate or not, I personally think they will come to discover they are not, knowing them as I do. I also posted about where I see these kids getting the idea that they are trans. All of them started spending an inordinate amount of time online during covid lockdowns, on video game servers, on discord, etc... and never returned to "real life" from before the lock downs. They became convinced they were trans after interfacing with online communities where their "friends" (online only, never met in real life) are trans, and they are kind of following an online herd. It has made me wonder if all these online spaces where this is prevalent are either A) refuges where the anonymity of the internet provides people with a safe space to question themselves with others who are also questioning themselves or B) essentially traps set to ensnare troubled teens into a sense of gender dysphoria so as to generate more societal discord. Like, how do we know that these online "friends" aren't a Russian AI chatbot? Or just some person getting funded by a group who benefits from our societal discord to essentially "recruit" troubled teens into the front lines of the culture wars? We don't. All we can really say is that there are a whole lot of people/groups inside and outside of this country that would have no moral or ethical qualms about funding/facilitating such an operation. That this trans person was obsessed with guns, mass shooters, far-right politicians, anti-semitism and was stenciling Russian messages on their weaponry makes me wonder even more. But, the most likely scenario is that these kids are troubled, either from a childhood interrupted by covid or other reasons, and these underlying issues make them want to "escape" the real world for a virtual one. They then wander into an online environment where being trans is trendy. These communities provide them with connection and acceptance, and they start to mimic their peers as teens are wont to do. These peers just happen to be online and trans. Voila, you now have a teen with gender dysphoria on your hands. Their parents are typically blindsided when the teen finally comes out. If they are the type tuned into the conservative infosphere, predigested answers as to how and why their kid is trans are readily available. It's the liberals, the groomers at the public school, the democrats, Hollywood, and so on. It's a goddam shame our kids are a fucking political football. Just leave them alone to figure out who the fuck they are.
  8. This country sure went to shit after the native Americans were usurped.
  9. I am only surprised that in 2025 America, they didn't appropriate the Cleveland Indians Chief Wahoo logo.
  10. I hope you all realize that if Raja doesn’t get prosecuted I am going to channel my inner Derka from the Quinn Ewers thread in this bitch 😜
  11. Mark Henry weighs in and seemingly lays most of the blame on the wrestler's lack of experience.
  12. My only regret is that it does not have a PRS headstock.
  13. You've got break a few eggs if you want to make an omelette for the world's first trillionaire.
  14. Well, I think there is an event horizon with AGI after which we can only speculate as to what will happen downstream from that moment. The only thing I think we can be certain of is that A) it will be a threshold event, there will be the human experience before and after AGI and B) there will be a tremendous amount of disruptive change with a lot of butterfly effect. So I don't think it's too valuable to speculate about the ramifications of human's sharing their existence with an intelligence greater than their own. Even the AI experts disagree wildly. The lack of consensus tells me we really don't have any idea of what the future holds post AGI. Beliefs about that future beyond the singularity share more commonality with a spiritual faith than logical analysis. Also, I am not convinced AGI is imminent.
  15. I didn’t say the AI artist was worth a damn😜. My point is what can AI do in an artistic realm without a human to guide it, provide it a perspective and feedback loop? Nothing. You can’t quantify art, you can’t reduce it to some mathematical, deterministic “better” outcome. Like you could have an AI optimize a drug so that statistical models show increased survivability against cancer. The funniest thing about the AI artists work in the coffee shop? It had a $250 price tag on it, right next to a bunch of “real” art priced similarly. It was nothing that couldn’t have been produced with Midjourney by anyone in 15 minutes. But… I’m not sure it was objectively worse than all the “real” art around it. It’s all just local bohemians who, if they had real talent, wouldn’t be relegated to the walls of the 3rd best coffee shop in Salida, CO population 3000.
  16. Pickguard screw count check please…
  17. Yeah, these guys I saw could be wrong, and that statement sounds very different than what they felt was going to be coming from the promoters. Wrestling is tricky. I mean, they are essentially roleplaying assaults all the time, and real injuries are inflicted all the time. Where is the line at which the law can ascertain what is real and what is part of the show? Where is the line beyond which the wrestling business wants to invite the law's scrutiny?
  18. Not arguing contrary to what you or @956 Worldwide are saying. I personally agree with you, just stating that some people feel like its somewhat likely the wrestler and everyone adjacent to the wrestling production are going to want to stay out of a prosecution/be uncooperative for reasons that only make sense within the wrestling business. These guys are more experts in wrestling than they are legal matters, so after that they are just speculating from a non-legal opinion on what the police might do with all the video evidence but no cooperative witnesses between the victim and people involved with the production (promoters, other wrestlers). I mean, its attempted murder, and pre-meditated at that. I don't think there is any other conclusion that we can draw from the videos we've seen. But if the victim and all the other wrestlers are going to undermine that conclusion by saying, "All the videos before, during and after the match were intended to be part of the storyline. The victim's catastrophic injuries were horrific, but not intended and not malicious. The only intent from everyone involved -- including the accused -- was to sell the audience on a malicious assault happening. Unfortunately, it was unclear to everyone involved -- including the accused -- that serious injuries had been suffered by the injured party" under oath, what's going to happen? If the police/DA know that going in, are they going to want to bother? I don't know the answer to that.
  19. Saw some video last night where some wrestling talking head was predicting nothing criminal comes from this. He related stories of how when he was involved in regional, independent wrestling, one of the uniform things across orgs was that if you were publicly shown to not be a badass, you would be fired -- no ifs, ands or buts. You can go out, party, have fun. But if you get into a real fight, you better win, because if there are videos online showing you to be less than a badass, your job was over. He believes that unless this wrestler dude can physically never wrestle again, he will likely not press charges, treat it as part of a storyline and try to use it as an angle for a rematch against Raja. Otherwise, he's done as a wrestler at any level with all the videos and media attention showing him getting his shit pushed in. And if the wrestler doesn't want to be involved with a criminal prosecution, there won't be one. He's probably wrong as fuck, but who knows. The police do seem to be waiting on the victim to want them to do something, and nothing seems to be coming from the victim's direction, yet.
  20. I think the genesis of rap music is a good example to examine in this context. How did rap music as a genre form after some isolated protorap tunes like SugarHill Gang's "Rapper's Delight"? A lot of it was a human expression of music using the tools that poor black kids in the ghetto had at their disposal. R&B, funk and soul records from the 1960s and 1970s and a couple of turntables -- all borrowed from parents. A DJ would take the same record on both turntables and alternate playback of the same passage of music to create a continuous vamping loop. They'd provide decorations and fills using scratching and other DJ techniques. A rapper would vocalize in a rhythmic chant vs sung melody about life as an African American in the 'hood. This is the core of songs like Public Enemy's "Don't Believe The Hype", Eazy E's "Boyz-In-The-Hood" and Ice Cube/NWA's "Fuck The Police" and other such songs from the era where rap exploded onto the scene. These are people that had a desire to express themselves and their life's experience, but without access to the traditional tools to make a full music production. So they invented a new form of music with the tools they had, printed albums and cassettes, distributed via their own record label which meant initially selling it out of the trunk of their cars to others in the hood. And as much as people can criticize rap, one thing you cannot take from it at that time is that it was raw and authentic. It was an expression of real human emotion and hardship at a time when glam was over, punk was winding down, hair bands were dominating rock with songs like "Girls, Girls, Girls", and grunge had yet to emerge from the pacific northwest, sopped with angst. An interesting experiment would be, if you took an LLM and trained it on just the music of 1960s-1970s R&B, funk and soul records, could it invent rap or something like it without a human perspective providing input and feedback? I don't definitively know, but I would guess, no, it couldn't. Or at least not with intent. It might luck into it by chance as Rick Rubin says is possible. But it does not have the experience of life in the ghetto to guide it. It does not have poverty limiting the tools it has at its disposal. It hasn't been slammed down to the street top by black police showing out for the white cop. It doesn't have other people from the ghetto validating it by buying it out of the trunk of someone's hooptie. In a vacuum of all of that lived context provided by humans, I don't think AI would "discover" this new genre. But maybe I am wrong about that, I dunno.
  21. Related, a cross post from the music forum: A thoughtful perspective from Rick Rubin. While I think he’s right about what AI lacks now (a unique perspective), it kind of presupposes that the average music consumer cares about such high falutin’ ideas. I think this is where AI augmented human creativity comes in. The human providing the editorial perspective and AI allowing rapid iteration through ideas. Like, I saw a print from someone at a coffee shop who described themselves as an “AI artist.” It was of a handful of sheep eating dollar bills from a feeding trough and ignoring a lush field of grass behind them. A kind of cynical statement about life in a capitalist society. Using Rick Rubin’s terms, the human provided the perspective in the piece of art, and AI just provided easier access to that perspective being realized in a tangible way. I think that is the sweet spot for using AI in art forms like music.
  22. A thoughtful perspective from Rick Rubin. While I think he’s right about what AI lacks now (a unique perspective), it kind of presupposes that the average music consumer cares about such high falutin’ ideas. I think this is where AI augmented human creativity comes in. The human providing the editorial perspective and AI allowing rapid iteration through ideas. Like, I saw a print from someone at a coffee shop who described themselves as an “AI artist.” It was of a handful of sheep eating dollar bills from a feeding trough and ignoring a lush field of grass behind them. A kind of cynical statement about life in a capitalist society. Using Rick Rubin’s terms, the human provided the perspective in the piece of art, and AI just provided easier access to that perspective being realized in a tangible way. I think that is the sweet spot for using AI in art forms like music.
  23. Anyone want some artisanal, hand crafted software?
  24. He should just hire the underemployed human racists.
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