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tokamak

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  1. Check out the Texans making moves to improve their team. Are they allowed to do that?
  2. I don't understand a world in which the Cowboys drafted some useless bum from Michigan last year at #26 overall but Sweat doesn't go in the top 64 picks.
  3. USC struggling to figure out NIL surprises me. On paper, seems like they should be a net winner.
  4. Switching it up now. God damn this is good stuff.
  5. Tonight’s selection. First still strength bottle I’ve had. Great deal at Spec’s. Strong to quite strong.
  6. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TzoBTIvCXfZIk7Sz3C9txMg0yPvrXyVM/ shout out to @AP101S, who I think is the original author/maintainer. It's incredibly useful.
  7. I'm sure you have more info on this than I do, but I'm going to be very pleasantly surprised if we don't lose at least 1 and possibly 2 WR that we really want to keep and that will cause major consternation among fans. Not going to name names since I'm just speculating, but it's not that hard to figure out who I'm talking about (it ain't Ryan Niblett). Guys might be saying they're happy on March 28 and truly mean it, but our roster and depth chart presents a big juicy opportunity for anyone in the country looking for a guy to plug in and play big snaps this fall. "See what you can get in the mix at Texas, or come be our #2 guy right here and now" is a strong pitch. I dunno. I'm a pessimist at heart, so maybe I'm just overthinking it.
  8. tokamak's personal top 5 episodes power rankings (of course my kids vehemently disagree, but they have no taste): Rain Sleepytime Granny Mobile Cricket Markets
  9. Well he'll also be running for his life because 40% of our starting OL is going to be guys off the street.
  10. What the fuck is a "shot bar"? Don't all bars serve shots?
  11. NFL contracts and salary cap considerations are way over my head, but my reading of the situation is that we've been kicking the can down the road for years with Dak's contract(s) but you can only do that for so long before you eventually have to eat shit one year. So the Joneses have decided to eat shit this year and hit the reset button on the team's salary cap situation. I'm sure they feel like they can beat other offers if they really want to re-sign him after this year.
  12. The easy explanation is that we took Lacey because we liked him, he wanted to commit, and we had dreams of a Lacey/Ryan Williams combo. Russell wasn't really in the picture at that time. Now Russell has blown up, we decided we really like him, and the plan is to recruit both guys hard and let the chips fall where they may. The puzzle piece that doesn't fit for me is that Lacey was kind of shaky for a while but lately appears to be getting firmer in his commitment, if anything. He canceled his other OVs. The trend is the opposite of what you'd expect given the situation.
  13. It appears that Baltimore is a huge port for roll-on/roll-off cargo. Not just cars, but construction and farm equipment also. It's pretty interesting on Google Maps, you can see a ton of excavators and stuff like that parked there at the port. Containers should be able to go to other east coast ports without too much trouble (trucking will probably cause some headaches), but I wonder if the facilities and capacity exist elsewhere to offload all the cars and machinery that usually go to Baltimore.
  14. I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but it seems like there is a huge difference between this: and this: Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_Eastern_View.jpg.webp
  15. Yeah, obviously first thought it with the lives lost. But beyond that, this seems like it is going to fuck up the Baltimore area pretty good, and for quite a while. I assume the port is completely closed until the debris can be cleared, which will take what, weeks? Rebuilding the bridge will take years. Looking at Google Maps, just across the bridge are a bunch of warehouses and distribution centers - Amazon, Fedex, Home Depot, looks like a big VW entry point. A lot of economically important traffic must flow over this bridge every single day.
  16. I didn't get a notification from this post. I'm game, just gotta know when and where. Are we doing NL-only?
  17. Personally, I buy iPhones because Apple's core business is selling me devices, whereas Google's core business is showing me ads. Whether it's justified or not, that leads me to trust Apple with my privacy more than I do Google. I'm not exactly an Apple fanboy. I find the notion of giving a fuck about any megacorporation ludicrous. I do however have concerns that forcing Apple to do this or that could ultimately lead to unnecessary enshittification of its platform. Apple's walled garden may very well be anticompetitive, but it has also caused a lot of consternation for other tech companies that see me as a product rather than a user (thinking mainly about Meta's complaints about tracking on iOS devices). I view that as a win.
  18. Two pilots on board at the time of collision, per news reports.
  19. Think he means this guy. His film is real good. He can really move. There is one funny play where he gets blown 5 yards off the LOS but he still makes the tackle (1:20). Not sure I would have put that one in there. https://247sports.com/Player/matai-tagoai-46136825/
  20. I'm having a hard time reading between the lines about what's going on at QB. Lacey and Russell both say the right things about being in a 2-man class but that seems pretty far fetched in this day and age. So you'd say OK, maybe Russell is just the Lacey insurance policy. But if anything, the latest updates on Lacey indicate a guy that's getting more solid, not less. Not to mention that they're different players - Russell is significantly bigger and much more of a running threat. Russell's tape looks pretty legit to me. No offense to SMU, but I think he's destined for bigger and better things, whether it's us or someone else.
  21. Interesting snippet from the article: Killing 346 mostly brown people = "lol these non-Western pilots suck" Door falls off above Portland, no injuries = "WATERSHED MOMENT!"
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