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  1. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/chick-fil-as-creepy-infiltration-of-new-york-city

    New York has taken to Chick-fil-A. One of the Manhattan locations estimates that it sells a sandwich every six seconds, and the company has announced plans to open as many as a dozen more storefronts in the city. And yet the brand’s arrival here feels like an infiltration, in no small part because of its pervasive Christian traditionalism.

    I noticed that word—community—scattered everywhere in the Fulton Street restaurant. A shelf of children’s books bears a plaque testifying to “our love for this local community.” The tables are made of reclaimed wood, which creates, according to a Chick-fil-A press release, “an inviting space to build community.” A blackboard with the header “Our Community” displays a chalk drawing of the city skyline. Outside, you can glimpse an earlier iteration of that skyline on the building’s façade, which, with two tall, imperious rectangles jutting out, “gives a subtle impression of the Twin Towers.”

    This emphasis on community, especially in the misguided nod to 9/11, suggests an ulterior motive. 

    It’s worth asking why Americans fell in love with an ad in which one farm animal begs us to kill another in its place. Most restaurants take pains to distance themselves from the brutalities of the slaughterhouse; Chick-fil-A invites us to go along with the Cows’ Schadenfreude.

    Defenders of Chick-fil-A point out that the company donates thousands of pounds of food to New York Common Pantry, and that its expansion creates jobs. The more fatalistic will add that hypocrisy is baked, or fried, into every consumer experience—that unbridled corporate power makes it impossible to bring your wallet in line with your morals. 

    That may have been true in 1995, when Chick-fil-A was a lowly mall brand struggling to find its footing against the burger juggernauts. Today, the Cows’ “guerrilla insurgency” is more of a carpet bombing. New Yorkers are under no obligation to repeat what they say. Enough, we can tell them. NO MOR.

    I bet this guy is fun at parties.

  2. Not one from Ohio.

     

    ETA

    Urby has more recently recruited more "convenional" quarterbacks. They have some mobility, but they aren't Braxton Miller. Burrow is an example.

     

    Since 2015 Urby has tried to pivot to an offense that relies on the QB run less and failed every time. He continues to insist he's gonna do it. Today he has TWO great runningbacks, and only a RS frosh QB with significant mobility. And he's a liliputian.

     

    It's all very weird but there's a great offense in there if he sticks with it. Maybe Herman is thinking the same thing. Keep that spread run "look" but don't make your QB do the running.

  3. 1 hour ago, bolverk said:

    The Pentagon is stating this morning that none of our missiles was affected by their air defense system, per NPR.

    K.  Cool.  The Military Industrial Complex is a nation on its own, but they DO make good stuff.*

    *Other than the F35 Shitbird.

  4. Heard that maybe 1 out of 10 coalition missiles were destroyed by Syrian/Russian defenses. I don't know how state of the art their shit is but taking out a missile is no easy task. Seems to me like that's probably a pretty good number on their side of things. 
    I know it wasn't anywhere near a priority objective of the mission but I would think that a lot of intelligence was gathered re: their defenses in a strike like this. Knowledge that can be used at a future date.
    I go back and forth on that. It's a "scrimmage" and both sides get scouting tape from it. I'm gonna trust that because out military is (probably) better, we (probably) learn more from it.

    10% of our missles shot down is bad though. Did we use stealth aircraft as well?
  5. 1 minute ago, maninblack said:

    Another war of aggression

    Cloak Room is that way-->

    I read earlier the Syrians were spreading their assets out, and intermixing them with Russian assets, daring us to bomb both, or bomb neither.  Any update on that?

  6. Texas A&M is the iPhone - a big brand. We always hear about how new phones are "iPhone Killers" but never kill the iPhone. While these iPhone killers may be more impressive pieces of technology that are more powerful and functional, the iPhone still outsells them big time.

    I'd rather win 8 games every year and yet be tops in the nation in attendance, recruiting, and national recognition, than win 11 games and have limited appeal...

    Every program has a critical mass of homer idiots.  But wow.

  7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood_(2018_film)

    Directed by    Otto Bathurst
    Produced by    
    Leonardo DiCaprio

    Taron Egerton as Robin Hood[1]
    Jamie Foxx as Little John,[2] the leader of outlaws group Merry Men, and Hood’s best friend.
    Eve Hewson as Maid Marian, Hood’s love interest[3]
    Jamie Dornan as Will Scarlet,[4] half brother of Hood, member of Merry Men, and husband of Marian.
    Ben Mendelsohn as the Sheriff of Nottingham, Hood’s enemy[5]
    Paul Anderson[6] as Guy of Gisborne
    Tim Minchin as Friar Tuck[7]
    Josh Herdman as Righteous
    Björn Bengtsson[8] as Tydon

  8. 11 minutes ago, IDIOTsavant said:

    I’ve been thinking  this for a while now. I think we’ll see how comfortable Herman really is with the QB room if this guy transfers. His film from the OSU spring games has looked pretty solid. He was Mr. Football in Ohio his senior year if my memory is worth a damn.

    And he's a baller.  

  9. Chick gets all mad and sues the guy.  What's up with that?!

     

    https://www.jconline.com/story/news/local/purdue/2018/04/11/purdues-isaac-haas-accused-lying-std-and-infecting-his-former-partner/506982002/

     

    Alyssa Chambers filed a $1 million civil lawsuit in Tippecanoe Circuit Court Tuesday accusing Haas of lying to her about having a sexually transmitted disease — and subsequently, infecting her.

    Chambers and Haas engaged in a brief sexual encounter on May 15, 2017, according to a notice of civil tort filed with the lawsuit. Chambers was found to be infected with herpes two weeks later, according to the filing, which also names Purdue University and Madison Millsaps as defendants in the case.

  10. [/url] A pornographic video that falsely claimed to show Hillary Clinton engaged in a sex act has been traced back to an account that Reddit acknowledged on Tuesday is linked to Russia’s Internet Research Agency.
     

    The account, Rubinjer, was the Russia-linked agency’s most popular account on Reddit and received almost 100,000 upvotes, or Reddit’s version of Facebook’s “likes,” in its lifecycle before it was shut down by the site.

    One of Rubinjer’s posts on Reddit’s largest pro-Trump community, r/The_Donald, titled “This is How Hillary gets black votes,” links to an animated gif of the fake porn video that is still available on the platform. The same sex tape was posted five times to PornHub under the name “Leaked Hillary Clinton’s Hotel Sex Tape with Black Guy,” and also the porn site SpankBang.

    The video was viewed more than 250,000 times on Pornhub.

    A whistleblower from the Internet Research Agency, former employee Alan Baskaev, told Russia’s TV Rain last October that the troll farm had created a fake Hillary Clinton porn video. The video itself had not been credibly tied to a troll farm account until Reddit released usernames tied to the Russia-linked agency Tuesday.

    The graphic video shows a blonde woman and a black man having sex through a mock hidden camera in what appears to be a hotel room. Rubinjer was the only user to post the video, and the account pushed the content on several platforms, both as animated GIFs and full videos, before the 2016 election.

    Reddit is the fourth-most-visited website in the United States, according to the web analytics company Alexa. It is home to one of the largest and most popular Donald Trump fan communities on the web, r/The_Donald, where Trump once gave a Q-and-A during his presidential campaign. The Rubinjer account posted the porn video to that same community in 2016.

    In an announcement to its users on Tuesday, Reddit said that 944 accounts — including Rubinjer — were banned for “suspected Russian Internet Research Agency origin.” The company had not previously identified any of the accounts, 71 of which had over 1,000 lifetime “upvotes” on the site.

    Since last September, the Internet Research Agency had thousands of accounts deleted from FacebookTwitter and Tumblr, where they pushed divisive messages while posing as Americans. Reddit said it purged suspected accounts as far back as 2015.

    Rubinjer, which posted the hoax porn video, last posted on May 18, 2017.

    Attempts to push the porn video largely fell flat, with most users expressing skepticism.

    “If it’s her I think we'd see her face at least once,” wrote one user on the Reddit community r/Rule34.

    The troll farm account mostly posted relatable memes on Imgur to gain trust with users. Its top post, titled “Eating at a Waffle House full of cops,” received over 1,900 upvotes.

    You got a link?
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    The last time Germany went far right / nationalist, they didn't regret it until it was 12 years too late Russian T34's rolled through Berlin.

     

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