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  1. I have a kid at Oregon. I watch a lot of PAC-12 games. I also grew up a Horn fan. If Oregon does what I think they are going to do on Friday, which is put the wood to a Washington team that had every break go their way in the first game, plus Dan Lanning unnecessarily going for it on 4th down and not doing th easy football thing (something Texas fans also have suffered under Sarkisian), and they win by 2+ TDs, y’all will need to absolute demolish Ok. St. to be in the conversation (barring a Michigan, FSU, or Georgia loss). A low scoring single digit win isn’t going to do the trick. It just isn’t. The committee is not going to jump you over an Oregon team that definitively beats an undefeated top 5 team in the CCG. Rage about it all you want. I will completely give you that the beauty contest is unfair and bullshit. It’s an excellent argument for going to 8 teams. Lanning has been anticipating this and has been very slow to pull starters in blowouts.But be realistic. If it comes down to a beauty contest, your win against Ok. St has to look like Tech and not Iowa State. Now maybe Penix will go ham and Lanning will shit the bed, but we are different from A&M in being rational about who we are and what we are looking at
  2. I think the only team with a weaker schedule than Oregon, might be Meatchicken. Idgaf what pedo state is ranked. I also tend to have recency bias on losses as well.
  3. I think that would open some eyes for sure. Oregon’s weak SOS is a problem for the ducks, for sure. Lanning has tried to account for that by putting the screws to all their opponents, but the PAC 12s paper ranking out side of UW are thin.
  4. I have a kid at Oregon and I’m a life long Horns fan. As I stated: the SEC is going to get a team in the playoffs, short of Georgia losing to Tech, and Bama losing to Auburn today. It’s sorta bullshit, but SECSECSEC and all that crap. OSU-Michigan will take care of it self. If FSU beats Louisville, they will be in, but I don’t think they will without their best player. So it will likely come down to a beauty contest between Oregon and Texas. If you guys want to believe common opponent is definitive, then Texas is looking good. But Oregon is also possibly going to get a chance to finish the season against a top 5 opponent. And that may not augur well for the Horns. Really what both teams want is for Florida State to lose, that will solve much of the issue.
  5. Yet they beat TCU like a rented mule and TCU took you to the wire. why wErEn’T yOu dOmINaTE? Beauty contest are all eye of the beholder shit. Yes Oregon and Texas share a similar opponent. Two months apart. That’s a life time in football, and everyone can pick nuts with every one else’s schedule. I guess we should discount the fact Oregon just blew the wheels off a ranked opponent that took the #5 team to the fucking wire last week.
  6. Texas also only beat TCU by 3 two weeks ago and Oklahoma beat them by a gazillon. How far are we going to play this game? It really comes down to FSU, Alabama and Georgia: there is zero chance that the SEC is getting shut out. And I find FSU suddenly very non compelling. From there both Texas and Oregon control their own fates . But Oregon more so than Texas.
  7. The funny thing about this topic is how small Dealey Plaza is in person. I thought that it would be this giant thing and Oswald made some crazy 1000 yard shot and that's why all the conspiracy theories are true. Standing on the X on the road where the killing shot hit, it's not even 75 yards to the window in the book depository. It immediately made me realize that anybody with a gun rest and a scope who didn't have Parkinson's would have a solid chance of hitting a target in steady, slow moving vehicle.
  8. The Chiefs at this point need to be trying out any free agent they can get in the building.
  9. Same. The bullet he dodged was massive. I’ve seen similar scenes on other teams years later and the deep snapper or holder is usually fighting his own teammates to not tackle the kicker.
  10. Two red zone turnovers and a dropped on the hands TD. Generally I hate “you didn’t win, we lost” narratives, but if you are the Eagles, you are just happy to be here right now.
  11. Come on now, It's no time to be shy and remember it in all it's glory:
  12. I'm Sure DeBeor could make it work for a Fisher level deal, but I can not over emphasize how amazing the UW campus is. The main library hall is legitimately one of the most beautiful rooms I've ever been:
  13. My Cousin's husband is a full blown koolaid drinker. He's a great guy, but man, they cray.
  14. The rapidity that the Surl goes from “do the right thing” to “thirsty af” never ceases to entertain.
  15. That’s not what I meant. I was referring to the traditional bureaucracy around the helicopter crews, within DOD and VA. Equipment has to be accounted for, HR/benefits arranged, grief management systems start to turn. So the military has to have an official response/reaction, hence the public announcement of an “accident.” Some of the more secretive ground elements have a less obvious “employment” chain, so to speak. I understand that SOAR crews don’t discuss their deployments.
  16. That's another fun thing: Industrial Compostable is very different from home compostable.
  17. Well, and there is an entirely separate conversation about where we need to be putting our work on critical materials. Lithium is important, because we will need a lot of it, but the two biggest lithium producers in the world are Chili and Australia, which are free trade partners. My bigger question is whether we really ran the life cycle math on whether an immediate transition to EV was the best move, versus a wholesale move into plug in hybrids.
  18. The American Chemistry Council spends a lot of money fighting community information programs like this. It breaks the myth that plastics are sustainable.
  19. Given that no other Spec Ops deaths have recently gathered news, I'd guess they were carrying either CIA or something like Delta and got shot down somewhere they shouldn't have been, diplomatically speaking. The families of the actual pilots and crew aren't part of the culture of secrecy that surrounds the shooters on the ground.
  20. I had an SOC guy on his pentagon rotation who lived near me when I was in Virginia, right around the beginning of the War on Terror, and he intimated that when a bunch of warrant officers die in a random training exercise, unless people specifically saw the wreck, it's usually safe to assume something more is going on.
  21. Coaches in general simple do not understand that the clock, not the other team, is the enemy when working a substantial lead.
  22. The way most recycling works, is the "cleaner" the bundled recycling, post sort, the better the chance somebody will buy it. Capturing Aluminum basically pays for everything else in the recycling process, especially since the Chinese no longer accept cardboard and paper. So the price of the recaptured aluminum, to some degree, subsidizes everything else. With Plastics, only 1 & 2 are widely recycled (occasionally 5). so the first thing you want to do is never, ever, bother with 3,4, 6 or 7 (and probably 5). Just don't. Throw that shit away. If the container isn't clearly marked, throw it away. Separate the caps and toss them. Mixed materials are largely not recyclable. Basically the more hourly workers have to hand sort that shit, likely the more expensive it is and the less somebody will want the post sort bale. Which means the landfill. Plastic bags are the fucking worse. The absolutely gum up the machines in most facilities. Never, ever, ever, ever leave plastic bags in your single stream. Unless your community tells you to. Most grocery stores will accept your bags. But I encourage folks to get reusable bags and use them. Everytime.
  23. Most of New England has bottle and can deposit and this is the way it works. you wash and save your empties and take them back to the corner store and get your money back. Which obviously you just turn around and buy another 12 or 24 pack. Beer companies want their bottles back to clean, refill, and label. Otherwise glass is heavy and prone to breaking and spoiling other recyclables.
  24. Yup. His accuracy isn't as good as Pennix, but he also doesn't have Pennix line, which to me is what separates the two. Oregon's issue is Lanning is prone to Herman-esque "We are too smart to do the obvious football thing" moments. Like going for it on 4th when he should just take the points or punt and play defense. Also, Lanning is fucking TERRIBLE at lead management. He blew a lead over Oregon State last year by needless gambling on 4th down, and not simply slowing down his teams play snaps on a 3 touch down lead to milk clock. He's allowed some opponents to remain competitive by not just using the full play clock coming out of half and instead needlessly sticking with hurry up.
  25. We rented a cabin in rural VA during Covid, and when took our recycling out to the dump, they actually had the glass broken down by color: green, brown, clear, other. It was amazing. Most glass breaks in single stream and is only useful in asphalt production. By separating by color, you incentivize potentially refiring and using the glass. But again, that requires education and dedication. The advice I give everyone with recycling: If you aren't 100% sure, throw it away. Don't wish cycle. It's far more harmful than just landfilling.
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