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Rimbo

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  1. Ok so first of fucking all, given what we've been saying about single plays having an outsized effect on the game outcome, "he only had 4ypc other than that 80-yard TD" is like saying "if you take out all of Mahomes' good plays for no reason he regresses to the mean." Secondly, 4 ypc isn't shit; it gets it done. That means if you hand the ball off to him every play, you get a first down and then some every three downs.
  2. he's... much taller than I expected. makes me wonder how tall Anthony Daniels is
  3. So it's weird. My wife doesn't care for sports. Doesn't care about baseball. Gets mad at me when I try to talk about it, frankly. Absolute disdain for the entire enterprise. No interest whatsoever. And yet somehow she is in tune with the Astros' pitching right now... she, too, is serving meatballs for dinner.
  4. Of course it did. The point is... power that can be taken away, power that you're borrowing or renting, isn't real power. Trump's power is all on loan, and the bills are due. Laetitia James et. al. have come to collect.
  5. This isn't just oversimplified; it's inaccurate. That's the point of Xykon's little rant, there: Whatever you think is the way to get power isn't real if, say, a single dedicated DA and a non-corrupt judge out of New York can (and will) take all of it away from you with a little bit of evidence and the standard rules of the NY Court system. That's what DJT himself doesn't seem to quite grasp... but he's getting an education.
  6. metal should never be boring most metal is boring
  7. why don't you just fly out here and come kick me in the nuts seventeen times instead of the mental and emotional abuse here
  8. That suspending players might affect their win-loss record. Of course it's clear bullying. But football!
  9. it's surprising how impactful a comic with stick figures and obscure D&D rules can be, dramatically, when well-written if you're in a hurry, start from the third row
  10. Also, re: money, money is not power. If I may quote a comic bookstick figure lich, POWER ... is power. Our society is somewhat egalitarian in that you can buy power with money, and anyone can potentially gain enough money to be able to buy quite a bit of power, but there are some very strict yet undefinable limits on how much power your money can buy. Even infinite money can't buy all the power. Power is power. What pisses off Trump is that he's believed all this time that money WAS power, and he's now finding out those limits. That's why he walks out of yet another court loss muttering "This isn't America!" Because he thought, in America, that money was power. But money isn't power. Not even here. POWER is power. Other countries have their own mechanisms. China's power, for 5 millennia, has been tied up in the bureaucracy; when Kublai Khan took over after his father "conquered," it was only by remaining subservient to the bureaucracy that he could reign. Repeat for every new conqueror, for every new revolutionary. Military might can get you most of the power, but not all. And for all that time, if a Chinese person passed the civil service exam, no matter who you were, you became part of that bureaucracy, and from there you wielded power. Education could get you power, but not all the power. Power is power. You can buy power with money, you can conquer power with armed forces, you can gain rank with education. But these are just effective but limited tools that hide the reality.
  11. ☝️ The only real difference between what I was taught and the reality is... O was taught we'd be easily fooled. But only the fools are. Never thought the antichrist would be so obvious.
  12. It's an average, man. Like how the average family has 2.4 kids; almost no one has four-tenths of a kid, even though EVERYONE does... on average.
  13. I love this discussion. Real football discussion. The problem, of course, is the problem with most attempts at statistical analysis of football: The sample sizes are too small to be meaningful. (Even in a Mike Leach's Wet Dream of a game where each player gets 100 snaps per game, we rarely look at all 100 snaps, and just one out of those can and will have an outsized impact on the results.) But here, 49 vs 36 attempts is... it just ain't nothin'. Better than what you'd get for a WR (or a lockdown CB that nobody ever bothers throwing at, because his guy's never open), but still barely worth the effort. You're not wrong at all. Just that nobody knows shit in this "discussion" as it were.
  14. it took way way way too long to get The Police mentioned on this thread I mean Sting was literally the King Of (Pain) sad lyrics with happy music.
  15. Tell you what... one of the things I love about Firefox is that the extensions you install on your PC are the same ones you get on mobile. Bitwarden, ublock origin, etc
  16. Well anyway, on the odd chance any of you dickheads actually want to talk football, here's Sark's PC from today. Seems to me that Sark is struggling to contain his excitement.
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