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  1. No gore. Just the sound of desperation in this poor bastard’s voice. And, sadly, one of these brainwashed Ukrainian kids could be next.
  2. Wordle 1,607 4/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #885 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸ™‚ Daily Quordle 1388 5️⃣7️⃣ 6️⃣4️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
  3. I've retreated from that earlier stance.
  4. ESPN gives these odds for the next three games, and if all plays out accordingly, Texas would miss the championship game but still have a better than even shot at getting in with a 9-3 record. If Texas beats Georgia but loses to A&M, the odds of making the playoffs doesn't change materially, regardless of whether the Longhorns don't make (or even if they do lose) the championship game. Make the game but lose: 57% chance of getting in. Don't make the game: 59% chance of getting in. Gotta go 2-1 in these next two.
  5. You make a good point, so I decided to dig into the numbers. Assuming BYU wins out, and all of their opponents win the games they're supposed to (according to ESPN's current odds), then BYU's strength of schedule is actually better than I'd anticipated: They will have beaten 10-2 Utah, 9-3 ECU, 8-4 Cincy, 8-4 Iowa St., and 7-5 Arizona going into the championship game. So, maybe I'm not giving them enough credit. Also, according to ESPN's playoff predictor, if BYU wins the rest of its regular-season games but loses to Tech in the championship game, this is what their model spits out for BYU's chances of getting in. So, it appears that the Big 12 has a strong chance of securing two spots. https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/cfbplayoffpredictor2025/2025-college-football-allstate-playoff-bracket-predictor
  6. Too late to edit my post above, but if BYU beats Tech in the Big 12 championship game, I think both have a good case for inclusion and giving that conference two spots in the playoffs while lowering Texas’s chances of getting in at 9-3
  7. If BYU loses a second time to Tech in the CCG, they don't have a compelling argument to be included in the playoffs. In other words, they've definitively and emphatically proven they're not the best team in the country if they lose to the same team twice and, therefore, should not be stealing another team's spot. I could see that as being the committee's reasoning for excluding them when it comes to selection time.
  8. Arrogant ignorance is another way of putting it.
  9. This is what I could find: Iraqi singer deceived into joining Russian army Iraqi singer Hussein al-Turki appeared in a video on Saturday wearing a Russian military uniform, saying he had been misled into joining the Russian armyβ€”a case that coincides with Shafaq News reports documenting thousands of Iraqis recruited by Russian forces. Al-Turki said he had signed what he believed to be a four-month performance contract arranged by an Iraqi company in Baghdad’s Mansour district, complete with travel papers and a visa. After arriving in Russia, he was taken more than 16 hours from Moscow, had his phone confiscated, and was made to sign documents in a language he could not read. β€œI later discovered that I had been enlisted for a year of military service.” He said he pleaded to return to Iraq and even offered to pay his way back, but was told it was β€œout of their hands.” Al-Turki warned that other Iraqis are being deceived through similar contracts and false assurances. Under Russian law, foreign nationals fluent in Russian may enlist voluntarily, with monthly pay estimated between $2,500 and $3,000. Since the war began in 2022, more than 5,000 Iraqis are believed to have joined under coercion or misinformation. In an interview with Shafaq News on October 17, Russian Ambassador Elbrus Kutrashev said β€œthousands of Iraqis are ready to join the Russian army if given the chance,” a statement widely criticized as an attempt to justify foreign recruitment in violation of international law and Iraqi sovereignty. The Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights (IOHR) said the recruitment of Iraqis by foreign forces contravenes Article 9 of Iraq’s constitution, which prohibits the formation or operation of armed groups outside state authority.
  10. Performing poorly on the Monday morning puzzles should earn you a mulligan that allows you to go back to bed and hit the reset button on the week. Wordle 1,605 6/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #883 🟦🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ πŸ™‚ Daily Quordle 1386 7️⃣8️⃣ 4️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  11. This is very much along the lines that I've been thinking.
  12. I just checked HBO Max, and it doesn't look like they have it available. But the Internet Archive does appear to have all six seasons. https://archive.org/details/the-hitchhiker-s-1-6-complete
  13. I honestly don't believe this should be spoilered, but just in case:
  14. That final scene was...umm...slightly unexpected. I'm a little high, but I don't think I conjured that image all alone with my brain.
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