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  1. 33 minutes ago, Jiggy-Z said:

    We stayed in Molde with some friends and drove that road to Kristiansund 3 times during our stay with them. Lots of scary bridges and underwater tunnels.

    Pics of Norwegian women's. LOL.

     

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    I thought Norwegians were supposed to be hot. You could land a helicopter on that chick’s forehead.

  2. 3 hours ago, Grande Mart said:

    This one in Astoria always concerns me a bit. Not to mention all the bridges in Portland knowing they will pretty much all collapse when the great Cascadia Megaquake happens

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    Drove over that in 2021. Scary than the lake Charles I-10 bridge imo. But way more scenic.

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  3. 25 minutes ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

    Interesting thread. He's predicting multiple years

    Also, modern bridge designs shouldn't do this, but those designs started in the 80s

     

    Multiple years lol. He’s wrong.

  4. 1 minute ago, ztejas said:

    They aren't completing an 8,000 foot suspension bridge over the fucking ocean in under a year. That's an absurd timetable. 

    Well I definitely wouldn’t be giving your company a contract with that defeatist attitude. 
     

    They need that thing open for commerce, for automobiles and all the ships that have to pass beneath it. It’ll be an all out push and people will be back driving on it March 2025. 

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  5. 30 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

    He does mention that actual dangerous playground had in childhood is better, in the interview. Here is the excerpt, bolded is my own emphasis:

    DE: This reminded me of the part of the book that discusses the decline in ER visits, particularly among boys, because they’re not outside engaging in risky play as much. So does this indicate that, in a way, we might want some more broken bones? Not for their own sake, of course, but as indicators that kids are outside taking some risks that might get them hurt, but not permanently, and are important for development…

    JH: That's right. So suppose you're running an elementary school, and you have a playground, and someone asks you: What is the optimal number of injuries per year at your school? injuries serious enough that it has to go beyond the school nurse. And my contention is that the optimum number is not zero. It's not going to be high. I wouldn't want 10 or 20. But if no one is getting injured, probably things are too safe. Because children need risk. They literally need risk. And when we deprive them of risk, we're preventing them from overcoming their anxieties, and learning how to manage risk. And so that was a stunning finding. Because the girls’ story was pretty clear, and social media is the central factor. The boys’ story was not as clear. And we gathered data — and by “we” I’m including Zach Rausch — on the effect of sports gambling on older boys, and marijuana use in boys, and pornography and other things. And we wanted to know: What’s going on? Why are the boys doing so badly even though they are not as depressed as the girls?

    And what became clear is that boys had been withdrawing from the real world, from play and risk taking and adventure and challenge in the real world, the physical world with other kids. And they've been moving since the ‘80s into the virtual world as video games got better and better, as pornography got better and better. Boys are spending more time there, and with that, their personalities are changing. They are more risk averse. They are now as risk averse as girls their age used to be 20 years ago. It used to be the case when you look at who breaks a bone, who goes to the hospital for an injury, or a fall-related injury, it used to be that it was mostly teenage boys, followed by young men in their 20s. They were the risk takers. Older men and women don't break their bones very often. Well, that was true until 2010. In the 2010s, the rate for teenage boys has plunged so much that they are now less likely to injure themselves than a 50-year-old man, and they are less likely than teenage girls used to be 15 years ago. Because they're not doing anything that could lead to a broken bone. They're not riding bicycles, they're not wrestling, they're not running around. In order to play with their friends now, they go home alone, not over to a friend's house to play video games. You go home to your own headset and your own controller and your own screen. So some people might say, well, it's just as good because it's social. Yeah, it is social in the sense that you're talking to other other boys through your headset. But there's no actual risk taking. There's no fear. You're not overcoming any fears. You're not developing any skills that are of any use outside of the closed world of that video game. 

    That guy sounds like an idiot. I grew up riding bikes, playing sports, having rock fights, playing the “who can get the most air jumping off the swing” game. Never broke one bone or saw any of my friends break one because we weren’t idiots or massive fucking pussies. And if you’re in charge of a school and someone asks what what “the optimal number of injuries” to your students is your answer better be zero. 

  6. 14 minutes ago, immamac said:

    I was wondering how this wasn’t hundreds dead. Holy shit. 

    Fucking this. In the middle of that 1:40AM Tuesday morning rush hour it’s a miracle more didn’t die. 

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  7. 4 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

    Just an idea, and without knowing anything about the local geology, but I do wonder if wouldn't be quicker to tunnel.  Those massive boring machines can chew about 1/6 of a mile in 30 days or so.  Considering the total length of the bridge, about 1.6 miles they could conceivably bore that in about 180 days.  Fitting the tunnel after the fact is another matter, but it may well be a quicker solution.  

    A tunnel would take years. They’ll have the bridge rebuilt and open in a year tops. Governments have emergency contracts in place for when stuff like this happens, with massive financial incentives for companies to finish ahead of schedule. And with no traffic to worry about they can work almost unimpeded. They had that bridge in Minneapolis open like 10 months after it fell in the river. That Philly bridge that collapsed recently was reopened weeks later, although it was over land. 

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  8. That’s some seriously soft snowflake bullshit to stop the games over the “putttooooo” chant. It’s not even a gay slur necessarily, it’s also used if you just want to call someone a bitch. But god-forbid someone gets their feelings hurt even a little bit these days.

  9. 17 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

    weaver’s minutes + disu and max’s shot selection all fall on RT. you cannot keep your catalyst on the bench for the most important minutes of the season, and you cannot give your only two offensive weapons carte blanche to take stupid shots all game long. the dylan disu that dominated the postseason last year was destroying teams from 15 feet and in, not relentlessly jacking up threes no matter how many he missed. thus is the mercurial nature of this team. they are neither disciplined enough nor well drilled enough to be consistently good.

    coming out of the locker room for the 2H RT told the lady reporter that we needed to get our shots on our terms- the shots that we wanted within our offense. at no point in the second half did he actually enforce that policy, including/especially when abmas decided that fading away in the deep corner was a great idea for the most important shot of the season. tennessee missed a ton of bunnies and open looks, but their players were so much more disciplined and avoided taking the plethora of stupid shots that we did. we left their poor shooters unmanned on the perimeter and those guys never once considered shooting, instead opting for quick, decisive passes to keep the offense flowing. that’s coaching. the master beat the apprentice tonight, and the shot selection may be the biggest reason why. 

    Ha. It was a fucking 4 point game. Texas played like shit and still had a chance to steal it. Barnes is trash.

  10. 50 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    What have you done with Helo. Is he in a closet somewhere? We need answers.

    I’m not really a basketball fan, so I have the benefit of objectivity when looking at the team. I’m also a pretty big Terry fan. Ridiculed and criticized by those far less accomplished in life than him, he reminds me of myself.
     

    Also life’s just too short to root against teams you like or criticize them for “not winning good enough” or not winning with the coach you wanted. Enjoy success while it’s there.

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  11. 1 hour ago, shadow_operative said:

    after we played a really ugly game against csu:

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    texas fans were in here being rightfully and reasonably critical of the performance, and nobody was calling out or trashing RT. and yet, the pro-RT crowd decided to make whiny, angry posts about how everything is always RT’s fault and how a bunch of us would have praised the performance of chris beard was the coach, even though nobody was saying that. derailed the thread for more than a page.

    now, we don’t even play tennessee for another six hours, and the pro-RT is ALREADY making whiny, angry posts about how IF we lose tonight people will be happy because they always want to blame everything on RT.

    would you people fucking stop it? 

    There’s 4 likes combined between those 5 tweets. How long did you spend scavenging Twitter for something that fit your narrative? 

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  12. 29 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

    LoL. a great season is what happened last season.  Just because Shaka Smart was a fucking disaster doesn't mean you have to adjust what a great season is.

    We’ve made the sweet 16 eleven times, ever. Including pre-tourney expansion. For Texas, making the sweet 16 is a massive accomplishment. Go cry about it.

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  13. 1 hour ago, dcar00 said:

     

    He wins this it will be a very very good season and hope he can rebuild the roster thru the portal to keep momentum.

    Lol. If you make the sweet 16 you had nothing short of a great season. 

  14. 14 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    In hopeful news, social media app use is down across the board.  Musk’s shit show is the worst, of course. 
     

    I’d he curious to see what the demographics are. I’d bet olds are using apps more than youngs. My pre-teens tell me that being an “iPad kid” is lame. I am on social media passively for work and have noticed that the twenty somethings post a lot less than 30 and up even if they maintain a presence. 

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    I have some younger cousins in middle/high school. You’re definitely considered lame among them if you post on social media a lot. 
     

    There’s also a weird badge of honor thing to have a lot of followers on instagram while having just a couple or even zero pictures posted.

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  15. 2 hours ago, chainsaw said:

    He did this for football or did his family actually have to move

    That Mettauer QB is graduating so I guess Quanell didn’t have faith in the replacement for next year. I don’t know if North Shore was the right move though as they aren’t really ones to sling it around a ton. 

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