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Rimbo

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  1. I mean, aside from the fact he's arguing with someone who IS a source.
  2. Ok so... I knew he was SAYING Obama, but now... does he really not understand?
  3. Thing about Flood is that he's got skins on the wall for development, too, not just recruiting. Though it did still take some NIL help to jump start that, after a decade and a half of mediocrity. We've had guys who were good at one or the other (or neither) but not both since... I don't even remember when. But I figure nobody's perfect, and chalk this up to that. I can't see practices, so I don't know what's going on with the other players, if there's a blind spot here or what. Truth is, we haven't had the depth to do much if an OL was underperforming; the guys behind the guys were invariably worse. We should have depth now, but OL still have to develop. It's the second-hardest position on the field to learn other than QB. tldr: I don't think we've got anyone better, yet. But we should, soon, though maybe not this year.
  4. You can talk about age all you like, but only one of these guys is showing signs of dementia.
  5. He absolutely did, and guess who's right there to remind us of that little detail? https://www.threads.net/@joebiden/post/C5RjcRhPIj5
  6. There's just something about pounding Tech into oblivion that's satisfying.
  7. Eh, it's just bein' Socratic, really. It's more or less what How to Win Friends and Influence People covers, sorta; you'll never win an argument by having one. (I don't argue to change people's minds; I do it because I'm an asshole who enjoys arguing.) You change people's minds by getting them to wander over to the right conclusion themselves. You start by finding out how they got there. Then ask them why they didn't take a different path. It's not necessarily about cutting through in the moment, either. For this kind of thinking, it's about planting seeds that might not sprout for a year or even a decade later.
  8. You're still doing it. The key is to get him to question his information, not for you to look things up for him. You don't even have to point out that his information is literally just some crap he made up. You just ask him where he got that information, how you might verify it yourself. You're letting him engage in lazy thinking.
  9. Did a Summer job for a reinsurance company in Austin back when I was in undergrad. They deal with amounts of money that are staggering. Basically, the way it works is... if you want to insure something huge, like an entire resort complex, no single insurance company can afford to insure the whole thing; if it goes down, it'll take the company with it. So a primary insurer takes, say, the first $1M worth of claims. They're responsible for everything under that. Then, they sell the rest of the value of the thing to reinsurance companies. The next $1M-$50M will be held by another company; the next $50M-$200M by another, and so on until the whole thing is covered. The reinsurance companies cover more of the value, but pay fewer of the claims, and the risk is managed by being covered by a bunch of companies. To give you an idea of the kind of money they deal with -- and remember, this is back in the 1990s -- hear this true story. It's late July. I'm helping one underwriter (let's call him Andy) with a printer issue, and another underwriter comes in (let's call him Bob) because he lost $75M on a claim. Bob is whining that the owner is going to fire him over it, while Andy's reassuring Bob that he did the numbers right and that these things happen. Bob meanders off, and Andy turns to me and says, "He's being modest. He could lose that much every day for the rest of the year, and still come out ahead." That's one underwriter, in late July, who could lose $75M every day of the year and would stll be ahead. At 1990s prices. They deal with amounts of money that are staggering. No, it means Knight will have to pay.
  10. ok so basically if our starters can't pitch a complete game no-hitter, our bullpen will give up the game this year got it
  11. Basically this. Things are looking so good right now that, other than a certain poster who shall remain nameless, there's literally nothing to complain about. We don't know what to do. Oh, and the Lady Horns are out of the tournament, so NOW we can start paying attention... to softball!
  12. And you KNOW Biden is going to be blasting that to every retiree in every state, battleground or not.
  13. That assumes there's any plan at all. There's not one and never was. The GOP is the dog who finally caught the car, and now they're facing the consequences. I predicted a while back that we'd witness the end of the Republican Party due to Trump. We're starting to see its dismantling more clearly now.
  14. That's true of so many things that have become the GOP platform. Basic facts, like evolution and vaccines, have no business being political issues, either. Verifiable truths, like the complete lack of election shenanigans (except for the free examples which almost all happen to be the GOP stuffing ballot boxes), should be reported as such, too. But here we are, as we have always been...
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