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  1. 49 minutes ago, Zhorn96 said:

    It’s way better at Cal than Stanford. Β The Cardinal have maybe, 10 fans. Β Cal is in the triple digits at leastΒ 

    True to silicon valley roots, I see that you are a fan of binary numbers.

    Stanford and Cal are all about Olympic sports, and of course academics, research and the startups. Nobody will miss football.

  2. 3 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

    Got used to the rain.Β  Never got used to the clouds.Β  Β When they roll in, you seriously wonder if you're ever going to see the sun again.Β Β 

    My brother lives in Seattle and I visit him at least once a year. So, flight leaves Bay Area, everything is sunny, announce that they are landing in Seattle. Go through clouds and no more sun. Aahh, back in Seattle. Descend some more and there is another layer of clouds. It is getting darker. Descend some more and another layer of clouds. And another. Four layers of clouds making midday look like twilight.

  3. 8 hours ago, SquishMitten said:

    So, I've got ideas for the problems with wind (when it's not windy) and solar (at night). First, put some rubber bands into the wind mills. As they turn in the wind, the bands keep getting tighter and tighter. When the wind dies down, the bands with take over and keep everything spinning for a while...the bigger the rubber band, the better this idea works. For solar, the answer is mirrors. Arrange a bunch of mirrors that "catch" sunlight during the day and then keep bouncing the sunlight to different mirrors. If you use enough mirrors and have them direct light onto a solar panel at certain intervals, you could keep hitting those panels with at leastΒ some sunlight all night long. Easy peasy.

    Brilliant! We should have rubber bands engaged during the day when the solar panels are on the clock providing energy to keep the rubber bands getting tauter and tauter. As soon as the solar panels punch out in the evening, we release the rubber bands, which will cause the windmills to act as millions of turbojets to spin the earth right around its axis to get to morning within a minute, thereby putting those solar panels to work again hence doubling their utilization and reducing cost by 50%. Win, win!

    The guys on the other side of the planet may grumble about always being left in the dark, but that's why we have a dominant military.

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  4. KD was the MVP of those championships. They have very balanced team this year combined with playing against teams without playoff leadership. KD came within a toenail of single-handedly leading Nets to finals last year. KD was needed against the opponents they faced then. They needed a shot creator against Lebron's teams.

  5. 4 hours ago, burntorangebongos said:

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    This is one of those letter patterns where there are so many choices you are lucky to get in. Phew indeed.

    Yep, very frustrating. My second loss

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  7. So, the fear is that there are fewer future whites and the non-whites are dem-leaning?

    But isn't the fewer future whites part of a universal all-color demographic trend where a society becomes well-off materially, deliberately limits offspring to better enjoy material benefits, becomes career-focused that causes further birthing constraints, and ends up as an ageing one with a net negative population growth? This has been seen across early movers such as Japan and Europe and later ones such as China (despite childbirth limits relaxation). So, if whites want to have children, just have them, I guess?Β 

    But if the argument is really about voting blocks manipulation through immigration, I think there is enough evidence to show that naturalized citizens are roughly 50-50 between the two parties. I remember when Muslims voted heavily in favor of Bush Jr. in 2000 and believe they were the difference in him winning (voted heavily for Bernie the last two dem primaries because Trump absolutely scared them, not because they didn't believe in GOP idealsΒ preferred D over R). Also, many immigrants that I know instinctively align with small government, self-help, traditional family, and wrecking the school grade curve; supposedly right in line with classical conservatism. One may say that the culture among young or at universities is shifting to the left, but that is independent of immigration.

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  8. 7 hours ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

    Jimbo is so perfect for them. They couldn't have possibly hired anyone more aligned with their culture and identity.

    He checks off just about every aggie box: blustery, cheater, liar, insecure, cuck, mediocre (8-4), redneck, Napoleon complex, defensive, cocky, finger pointing, public relations tone deaf, thinks he's smarter than everybody else and completely lacking any semblance of self-awareness.

    I think Fran was the perfect candidate, including petty "friends from the capital" and small time hustling of a "newsletter" while reveling in small victories such as Texas being called for breaking the "law" (holding call in a game, I think). Jimbo is actually accomplishing something and has assembled a decent team albeit through underhanded means.

    7 hours ago, pyrohornIII said:

    I'm thinking we know where Kyle gets his dry sense of humor more than his dad leans maroon.Β  I'd bet that gear has the tags still on it so he can take it back to whatever Krogers he bought it after the joke.

    Exactly. This is an ultimate dad joke; making fun of your offspring's obsession/success.

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