capnamerca
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24 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
I won't say there's nothing to his point -- there is. I think our society is failing males across the board in numerous ways, so white males are included. But let's look at the statistical basis for his core complaint.
White males are 28-30% of the population. He is lamenting the following things:
Let me summarize those numbers: for ever and ever, white males occupied a disproportionately HIGH percentage of slots in those fields. Now they don't. And that's wrong. Oh, and my reasoning doesn't apply at all to the previous....decades/centuries of such statistically skewed favoritism of white males. Nope. I approach this like aggy, I only count the period of my choice (1984-1994, when aggy went 10-1).
But as for his point that the pendulum swinging hit his generation harder....yeah, he's not wrong.
But also, get the fuck in line. I'm Gen-X. The serial buttfucking we've received and will continue to receive from Boomers (and then, from the author's generation and Gen Z, because they are beginning to assert power and outnumber us) is epic and will continue to be). Summary from Brisket: don't come bitching to me about your generation getting fucked. Nope, shut the fuck up, I am going to tune your ass out because nobody ever has and nobody ever will give a fuck about our generation, so fuck off.
But also, he should feel very, very, very comforted, because we are now charging headlong into the golden age of "mediocre white men get all preferences over anyone else, regardless of merit," so take heart, millennials! Your day is here! Note that I am confident that you will NOT be bitching about the currently skewed hiring, political placements, etc. that is happening. Nope, that's just returning to the mean - white male favoritism - that we never should have lost.
Oh, and as to the layer of "we've passed gender parity," yeah, I got bad news for him. I've recruited and hired people in several fields (remember, I sit on some volunteer boards and have served in an HR capacity on some). Our searches are sure as hell gender neutral. In my experience, the quality of the candidate pool is NOT gender neutral. Hate to break it to you fellas, but in the professional (non-technical) world, quality female candidates outnumber quality males probably 2-1 or better. We still hire the best candidate we can get, but the law of averages alone tells us that said person is more likely to be female these days. He is not looking inward at all on the QUALITY of white guy candidates these days. Being bitter, entitled, often unlikeable, with poor social skills (online video games don't develop strong people skills) isn't a great look. Be better, white dudes. And note....I think there IS a broader social responsibility for this: our systems (educational, social, etc.) are failing males in general.
In summary: fuck 'em. And I say this as the father of a boy who is essentially a Gen Z white male. He knows and has had drilled into his head that he needs to set himself apart. I don't see the author lamenting the fact that young black men have had to get similar lectures from their parents for decades -- you have to be perfect, you have to be the one who never says anything but "yes sir" and "no sir" to the cops, etc. Poor me, waah waah waah. Yeah, I know, having a bunch of pissed off young white guys isn't great for society, but fucking hell, zero personal responsibility or ownership of their fate. Just shit that boils down to "I didn't get all the unfair advantages my predecessor generations had." Nope, you didn't. But you're getting them now, this admin is making sure of it. And not a single one of you is even thinking to CONSIDER that the pendulum might be swinging too far back in THEIR direction.
I started typing, and then said to myself, I said "self ... maybe if you wait a minute, Brisket will come along, say all the things you're trying to say, but better."
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I have 0 insider knowledge here, but I would expect that the YTTV negotiating angle isn't just about TV/content distribution rights (because they don't have a leg to stand on), but rather strategic application of leverage either in search/ads to benefit the Mouse, or in cloud / hosting / infrastructure benefits to same.
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There were definitely mistakes made by both teams, but holy cow the quality of the baseball played in that entire series was just so fucking good. I haven't had that much fun watching baseball in a long time. And credit to the umpires - I don't think there was a single egregious call that directly affected an outcome.
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47 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:
can’t wait to see the Japanese ratings in game 4, or whenever Shohei starts, especially if the dodgers run out to 3-0 lead
It's going to be absolutely bananas.
The Jays have some great storylines on their side, too. Gibson finally making it to a WS. The Yesavage kid, who started the year in single-A ball, making the Game1 start. First WS for the club since Joe Fuckin' Carter. The only MLB team from Canada, energizing yet another entire country.
This WS could be really, really fun. I'll have it on tonight. -
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1 hour ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:
frustrating thing about arch is he’s not reckless, maybe that’s a fault but he just misses too many layups
It's this. It's ALL this. Arch has missed easy, cakewalk chunk yardage in every single game. These are throws he's been making since he was 12. If he connects on even HALF of the obvious ones, we likely beat Florida, we maybe beat Ohio St., and we put some distance between us an UK. His stats move up into the "average P5 QB" range, and the narrative shifts completely to the OL.
The "The Film Guy" breakdown of the UK game highlighted some really, really terrible mechanics from Arch. Even the good throws were more a result of raw arm strength than execution. I don't know enough about football to really dig on potential causes, but Arch is doing absolutely nothing to help himself, and it's honestly baffling. -
4 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:
A 100 years ago.
That's completely disingenuous debate
... you have to compare players to others of their era. It's also completely dismissive of the impact Ruth had on the game. The entire philosophy of the sport changed when he was done as a player. Ohtani is executing at a level never seen before, that is clearly true, but until we see a legion of guys suddenly playing both ways, his impact won't ever be as great as Babe Ruth.
(Shoehei is fantastic. What he's doing is CLEARLY the most out-of-this-world thing since Ruth ... I'm not ready to annoint him yet, but I'm also enjoying the debate.) -
2 hours ago, Revolution512 said:
When you get hit that often, your accuracy will suffer some. It shouldn’t suffer this much. He needs to keep playing.
This is completely fair and I agree with it completely ... BUT ... Arch also missed wide-open throws without pressure and with his feet set against OhSt.
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it's almost as if you can't stop the foibles of human behavior on the supply side. Has it EVER worked? (don't look too hard, the answer is no). But dammit, we're gonna try again, and the right will keep voting for it because it means they get to blow things up, victim-blame folks for being actual human beings, and then go home at night at huff the paint fumes, or get drunk off our gourds, or high as a kite on Oxy while we blame "them damn Mexicans" for everything that's wrong in the world.
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1 minute ago, dieucla98 said:
Ooooooooooooh @capnamerca !!! Come on down!
Goddamn, those HOCO's were fun as fuck.
I have zero interest in planning one, but i'll damn sure play!
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9 minutes ago, GoldAppleCorps said:The OL wasn't a full on asset. They stopped being a liability, and that was huge progress in one week.
It's not a coincidence that when our OL play rises to the level of "passable P5 team," our RB and WR performances got miles better too. No drops. Topped 100 yards rushing. No INTs.
It all starts with the OL. -
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2 minutes ago, Codaxx said:
but this offense is not getting fixed (I mean enough to come close to a playoff team) with just improvement at the QB position.
I agree with this as well. I'm just saying that with "D1 starter a ANY P5 school" level of output, these challenges in our offense are far less 'the world is falling' and far more 'we might not be able to beat UGA and then tOSU b2b to win the natty, but we're in the conversation with just a few fixes like OL run blocking.' Everything feels worse because we can't even make the easy plays, and there's so little that Sark can do to scheme around the OL gaps without getting SOMETHING from his QB to help.
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10 minutes ago, Texasrocks said:The offense is broken - Arch is a mess, the o-line is a mess, Wingo has issues. That whole side of the ball needs to be overhauled. I doubt it happens, but after the season, Sark needs to fire Milwee and Flood and bring in an OC to call plays and coach QBs.
I don't necessarily disagree, but holy shit look at the clip that @Newy25 posted ... the offense schemed people open ALL DAY, and Arch couldn't make any of the throws. A few were drop-backs with a clean (enough) pockets, a few were quick-single-read chip shots, and at least one was on a roll out (maybe an unplanned roll-out, but still). Every way you can put a QB in a position to succeed, Sark did for Arch.
The clip, in case you hate yourself enough to try and watch again.
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1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:
I'm not sure there's a list. Look at the Sears Cup winners since he hit campus:
Stanford
Stanford
Texas
Texas
Stanford
Texas
Texas
Yeah, it was a tight race this year but I don't think I'd put Stanford or USC's AD in the conversation if we're talking the current state of college athletics.
My only counter-point is that not all Universities have the size to legitimately compete for the Sears Cup. Success in the AD role there would look like outperforming schools of similar size, or resurrecting a sport that has been a long-time doormat, or winning a championship as a serious underdog, etc. 'Outperforming your peer group' is the real measure, I guess. I'm not deep enough into the world of college athletics to compile that list, but there's probably a few out there that have some skins on the wall through that lens, who don't have CDCs endowment or donor base to pull from, so I wanted to leave some room in the list.
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21 hours ago, Zeus said:
we are also lucky to have CDC that a genuine dude
This is the gods honest truth. Look at the upward trajectory the entire Athletic Department is on since his arrival ... it's really incredible. There might be someone better at the AD job than him, but it's a short fuckin' list.
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3 hours ago, Hank Chinaski said:
I remember seeing Ricky Williams for the first over by the old social work building one day, just in passing. I remember thinking that I’d never seen anyone that looked anything like this guy ever in terms of his body proportions. Like, to the point where the pattern-recognition conventions my brain had invented to identify humans as human weren’t really working. I hadn’t felt so physically inadequate since the day I tried to pick up a teenaged lifeguard at Splashtown when I was 11.
Fucking same; during my freshman year, my schedule overlapped with Ricky's in a way that I'd pass him walking to class at least twice a week. His thighs were as big around as my waist, and his neck was close. He wasn't ALL that much taller than I was, but I swear he looked like the players we'd design in those early versions of Madden, with 99 speed and 99 BRK or whatever it was.
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1 hour ago, Tex Long said:outstanding things I see in him now is his willingness to own his fuckups, and learn from them.
The story about him building our culture, and realizing that he needed to be first through the door so he called a team meeting and laid bare his troubles with alcohol, and what he does on a daily basis to stay ahead of it, was inspiring as FUCK. I feel like I'd run through a wall for a coach who showed that level of humility and vulnerability (while still clearly demonstrating excellence on the field, and requiring same from me and my teammates).
The cynic in me feels like there's always another shoe waiting to drop, but I can't remember this level of excitement that I have for Texas Foootball since about 2004. I guess specifically, the 2001-2002 season where I felt like we were finally on to something repeatable, which 204-05-06 proved.
The Lost Generation essay
in Cloak Room
This is the thing that makes me the most sad about (waves hands wildly around at everything). I don't for a second think that progressives have anything figured out perfectly. While we're certainly guilty of smelling our own farts on occasion, I do believe that there's an underlying ethos of continuous improvement in our desire to govern. There's a very real part of our government that would truly benefit from a traditional Conservative thumb on the scale, pushing back (the "did the pendulum swing too far" comments above). The R's have such a magnificient chance to make so many changes to so much policy, and shit, take a victory lap too for making things better for everyone.
Education CLEARLY needs a ton of work.
Healthcare.
Energy Policy.
Inflation / Interest Rates.
Wages.
There is SO MUCH good that could be done by the party in power, to benefit so may people, and the Rs have 1) control of all three branches of government and 2) a series of pretty decent polices in place from D adminstrations to build off of.
But no, it's more fun to hate brown people.
Don't worry, I'm still fuckin' angry about all of it. But I'm so sad for the lost opportunity, too.
Something something two dollar whore.