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berlinerbaer

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  1. Random immunology questions... Can someone explain why people are fretting so much about antibody levels when the B cells responsible for making them last the rest of your life? Is the concern that low initial levels during infection would allow the virus to gain a foothold before antibody levels rebound? Can the virus suppress antibody production?
  2. My first guess would be that they tried to lowball him and he said no, but this is Oregon. Duck fans would flip if they found out the school wanted to go with a B coach to save a few mil a year. More likely is that Oregon wanted some concessions from him, like who to bring on as assistants, who to recruit and how, the exact technique in kissing Phil Knights' ass, etc. Lots of pressure in Eugene, and Wilcox heard Duck fans booing when Cal almost pushed that game back in October into overtime. In the pigs fly department, there are vague suggestions filtering down from the insider boards that Wilcox actually got concessions out of Cal. Not just an extension for himself but some sort of lasting commitment to the program, maybe a relaxing of the admissions requirements now that the team leads the conference in APR and maybe something pertaining the grad school and the portal.
  3. Oregon has chosen to prioritize recruiting over all else, essentially doubling down on the Cristobal strategy. Time will tell if Lanning is a better coach than Cristobal. It's odd because the high water mark at Oregon was with Chip and Helfrich, guys really good at the Xs and Os. It worked because the program basically attracts top talent regardless of who is running things. The OC hire is critical.
  4. An then the naval officer turns back to look at his warship.
  5. Wilcox is sucking shit through a straw at Cal, admittedly a recruiter's nightmare. Chip kicked ass at Oregon, a school that recruits itself. I can't tell who really is the better recruiter but it doesn't matter. If down to those two, Oregon is going to go with what worked before.
  6. In his first year at Cal he took a unit long neglected by Sonny Dykes and made them dominant. The defense is still decent now that he's been gone a couple of years but the change is noticeable. Good hire. Hopefully now you have a HC who won't let the offense go to shit.
  7. Probably not. Maybe we'll see the Garbers brothers duel.
  8. Thanks lil bro. The Rose Bowl has been cruel to us for so long. We'll take what we can get.
  9. Cal is the issue. Cal and the City of Berkeley. The City insisted on testing the entire team after a few players tested positive before Cal played Arizona. That revealed many positive but asymptomatic cases. The University then forced those players into isolation for a period of time, despite some of them subsequently testing negative. I'm not sure if the overreach was team-wide testing, the isolation period, or both.
  10. Stanford's backup QB is shitty huh? I can't throw stones.
  11. Last reported on the Cal board it was 9 starters plus more from the lower strings. Cal doesn't have the depth to cover the line as it currently stands with that much depletion. Just MHO.
  12. Bro, Trump's criminal justice reform bill passed the House and Senate with total Democratic support. The only nays came from Republicans. Trump's CARES Act passed overwhelmingly. Dems will give a Republican president a win if it is good legislation.
  13. This all sounds good to me but candidates have proposed something in this general ball park and nobody's been chomping at the bit to vote for it besides progressives. Andrew Yang comes to mind but so does Joe Biden and the child care payments that have been going out for the past several months after the latest stimulus package. No hypotheticals needed. That's real world stuff you can point to. And guess what? Biden's approval is in the gutter. No, not because of the payments, but at least in spite of them. It tangentially reminds me of Obamacare and how the Dems got nuked from orbit electorally the following year, except that was a direct cause and effect. But guess what? It's the law of the land. It was an irreversible step in the right direction. I like good policy too, way more than I like the teams that come up with them. If we could possibly get election reform as well as some real lasting action on climate change this term (BIG if), I would really take the sting out of the Republicans taking control of Congress and the presidency in 2024.
  14. People forget, but Trump did more than pander to the "free shit army". He ran a populist campaign. Yeah, that included racism and grievance but he also told everyone he wanted to tax the rich and "drain the swamp". Those are progressive policies. He co-opted the left as much as the right. Politically savvy considering he was running against a centrist. He then took corruption to heights never before seen. Not specifically responding to you, just pointing this out.
  15. So the Dems get blowback because of their fringe who want acceptance of inequality and equal rights but Republicans don't feel any repercussions from theirs, despite theirs basically staging a violent coup last January, trying to kidnap a sitting governor, and drowning in conspiracy and misinformation, among other things? Ok
  16. How is little Garbers looking tonight? Stats don't seem great.
  17. Oregon is a fraud in the top 10 but they stand a good chance of running the table until the CCG. That's how bad the Pac 12 is this year. Maybe Utah beats them.
  18. He is making an argument that is growing among the Right. Climate change denial is becoming unpopular, so the next argument isn't whether it's occurring, or even if we are responsible. The next few decades are instead going to be spent arguing about whether we make all cars electric and go to renewables by 2040 or just surround Florida with a giant seawall. Or if not all of Florida, at least The Villages. The argument is that it will all be a black swan that nobody saw coming, and that all we can do now is hold back the sea and install bigger air conditioners in our F550s, at least for the people who can afford them, while sticking with coal since at least now a whopping 5% of the emissions are successfully being captured.
  19. Damn it. Too much of a talent mismatch. Even Cristobal can't fuck that up.
  20. I doubt she runs for re-election in 2024. How does she think that future lobbying gig is going to work? Who is going to hire her? Democrats won't approach her and Republicans would rather hear from one of their own.
  21. This dude runs a Youtube channel on electoral commentary and such. Here's his breakdown on Oregon and Texas. Oregon analysis starts at 3:50. Texas at 7:43.
  22. Fivethirtyeight up with an informative piece on this map. Basically every representative is in a safer district except Vicente Gonzalez in TX-15, and he's retiring. That seat alone will determine whether Texas is 25-13 or 24-14. Can't overlook the effect that uncompetitive House races will have up and down the ballot. This new map will really hurt turnout.
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