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  1. Sickos Committee (great follow, BTW) says no but doesn’t cite anything.
  2. Somebody explain OnlyFans to me in a way that makes sense. It’s just naked women on the computer, right? And you send them money to see them naked? Who the hell pays for that shit?
  3. The brochure said it was a Flying Spur, not a Landing Spur. I see no case for a claim.
  4. The unpleasant truth is that Hamas started a war that’s killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, brutally murdered thousands of Jews in the most horrific ways, is holding toddlers hostage—- and has never enjoyed greater support in the West Bank than right now. It’s all seen as worth it to get some stabby women and rock-throwing delinquents out of jail. We tell ourselves some pleasant lies about what the population wants.
  5. The Pentagon is claiming that the likely target of the missiles was the merchant vessel and not the destroyer or the CSG. I smell some obfuscation here— it’s clear that this admin is desperate not to go kinetic outside of places like Syria where we have been active anyway. It’s a lot more convenient to pretend they aren’t shooting at us, but at some point for deterrence to work— someone has to be home when the doorbell rings or else you look foolish. Also of interest in this story— 4 PLAN vessels were operating in the area and basically pretended that they didn’t hear the call. The USN and the Japanese responded. A data point on how China makes noise at being a responsible global player but doesn’t want to do it. Even Russia—fucking Russia— was taking active part in anti-piracy actions when the Somalis were feisty.
  6. From what I can tell, this doubles his base salary from Duke but places him at 9th highest paid in the SEC. The assistant pool is lower than Jimbo but on the better end for the SEC. The economics of CFB at the serious levels are astounding for me, just completely untethered from anything other than what big donors are willing to cough up. You have to wonder when they’ll all decide it’s a racket. Same for me with NIL, I cannot understand it. I trend toward “serious fan” but I have a hard time thinking of a less satisfying way to spend any spare coin than making a direct deposit to a college defensive end.
  7. As of now it’s a pretty down year for vacancies. P5 jobs open or opened this season are: Indiana Miss State Sparty Oregon State A&M Duke Houston ‘Cuse Northwestern That’s a thin list. You’d jump from Duke for only Sparty, A&M, MAYBE Miss State when factoring stepping stone and salary.
  8. There’s no rule against using the camera and your mirrors. Newer cars have higher belt lines, higher ride heights, and smaller rear windows. The backup cam plus mirrors offer you a full view of what’s behind you and it is dumb AF to not take advantage of being able to have that full visibility. Almost as dumb as sitting in traffic that could be avoided if you downloaded Waze. Driving makes people stupid AF. Strong vibes of “I don’t wear a seatbelt so I can get out of my burning car” logic here.
  9. Google maps and Waze fucking rule. Yes, I absolutely want a supercomputer to look up the road for me and tell me when to avoid a massive pile up or when my train is late and it’s better to grab a bus or Uber if I have to be somewhere on time. Who the hell wants to sit in traffic they don’t have to?
  10. Yesterday we were driving back from my sister’s on the East Coast, an unfamiliar route. I have google maps on the phone and am using the USB jack. Unknown to me, she switched to Bluetooth while I stopped at a gas station because she wanted to listen to something on her phone when I filled up. But she has also for some reason programmed a route home into her own google maps, only she’s got “avoid tolls” programmed. Result: I am going absolutely fucking insane as the maps voice coming out of the speakers is completely different from what the route that is showing on my own maps, we took two wrong exits trying to figure out WTF was going on until she told me she had switched the inputs.
  11. I don’t think that class was really part of the decision-making matrix, I really do think Elko was best realistically available. And objectively I don’t think he’s a bad hire, but he’s also not a super-exciting one and comes with questions. As for what’s left of the 22 class, it’s about the opportunity it presents. If most of them stay, then Elko will have a talented locker room that can win games and that will make a lot of difference for what he’s able to build in the medium term. Coming in and taking a step back, which is absolutely a possibility, is going to put him in a pretty deep hole when you survey the college football landscape around us. Coming in and taking even a small step forward is pretty important.
  12. I don’t think he’ll leave Petrino in place but I have no special insight. His OC at Duke isn’t a guy he has a lot of history with. The issue is, as others have noted— he has less money to throw around. I don’t think we are going to see a new HC recruiting bump, some of the mercs Jimbo got to commit will be poached, maybe a few guys on the defensive side will be swayed our way. He’ll need to hit the portal to fill gaps and try to protect the skill position guys on campus, then hope a decent year next year helps him make headway.
  13. So, my semi-actual thoughts on this hire. My thoughts are…Elko’s OK? Which is good, because this was going to be the hire all along until Ross Bjork gave into the intrusive thoughts regarding Mike Stoops. There’s no doubt Elko can run a defense, as he’s shown at every stop he’s been at. And he is not a “Chief” type DC on the downswing. He took Duke to 22 PPG in 2022 and this year is second in the ACC at 19 PPG. HC chops, you have to give him an incomplete. Objectively, you have to say that anyone who gets Duke to a 9-4 record had a good year coaching. You’d have liked to see them hold or take a step forward this year to feel really good about him. He walked into a gift with Riley Leonard and you wonder how they’d be if he stayed healthy, Duke does not have a lot of depth. You can stay at Duke a long time at 7-5 and everyone is happy. From what he’s shown, he’s able to put a competitive team on the field, win most of the games he’s supposed to win, but there is a big step up to championship levels that most people don’t make and prior records at mid-tier schools aren’t a predictor. He hasn’t shown he can do that. I do think there is a sense of urgency to keep some of the talent on campus (more later) and so that’s why assistant hires will be key here. It’s a no-brainer to leave Robinson in place if he’ll stay. He can coach the DL, he can recruit, and hopefully Elko taps him as DC with a lot of oversight. After that….a lot of meh. Addazzio needed to be gone last year. Durkin plays a different style and is an awful person. Petrino was a step up from Jimbo calling plays, but Elko needs to change culture and does he want Petrino knocking around Bright? Likely not. The biggest issues that Elko faces is that he is walking into a worse situation than Jimbo in 2018. Less money. Lots of recent embarrassment. A toxic locker room culture. And Texas is coming with their dick swinging into the SEC instead of aimlessly floundering in a dying Big 12. Which means that if you want to get things past 8-4, you need to make some moves NOW before the narrative is written in stone. And a big part of that is, yes, keeping as much of the 2022 class around as you can. He’s fortunate the strength of the team will be on defense. His immediate job is to hit the portal for offensive linemen that can play now and for someone to fight with Henderson for QB2, and convince Weigman that he’s in better hands than he was with Jimbo. I think Evan Stewart is gone, but there will still be some good WR talent available. And then he needs to do a couple things with the 2024 season. First, he’s got to win games on the road, which was Jimbo’s undoing. No losing stinkers in Starkville or Columbia and ideally you win one of Auburn or Florida. And you can’t lose to Arkansas. The toughest games next season are at home. Second, he can’t get embarrassed at home. Aside from the cupcakes (no monster like App State looming), we get: Notre Dame, Mizzou, LSU, and Texas at home. We can easily go 0-4 against that slate, and if we do it’s going to be a big hole to climb out of because that means we likely also are taking some bad road losses. He really needs to get one good win from that group and can’t get blown out in the others. Ideally, he manages to take down Mizzou and one of LSU or Texas and then everyone will forget the growing pains with Notre Dame. I am not optimistic that happens. If he manages to get us to 9 wins including a bowl, I think that’s close to the ceiling and will give him some breathing room. But we can just as easily lose all four of those and drop a couple on the road and finish 6-6 and if that happens then he might never get the opening he needs to really build something.
  14. lol, this was the guy everyone knew we were going to hire. Expected if anti-climatic and likely the best real option out there. So of course we had to spend a couple days trying to put it in the wrong hole in front of the nation.
  15. Yesterday we had a magnificent Michigan vs. tOSU, Bama beat Auburn last second, and even UDub vs. Wazzou in the last PAC-12 Apple Cup was a hell of game. But what’s the CFB world talking about— our coaching search. That’s what it means to be big-time, dominating the news cycle. 3D chess y’all. It may look like we’re just fucking things up completely. Stepping on our dick. But that’s only cause it hangs so low and big to begin with. Yuk it up, we will laugh last when we hire a sitting SEC interim head coach who hung 38 on ACU.
  16. You can say that Israel needs to end the practice of military courts or administrative detention. But of course it’s sadly to be expected that dissemblers will try to draw an equivalence between Thai farm workers, grannies, and toddlers on the one hand and a pack of attempted murderers, muggers, bomb-throwers, gunmen and assorted teenage delinquents on the other hand.
  17. You can make a ton of money offering to consult and teach the government how to do things like a business and it’s a never ending grift because none of the processes you implement survive first contact with the stubborn fact that government isn’t a business.
  18. The IDF made a PR error by referring to it as the main command center. It’s clear that there was a significant Hamas presence and infrastructure there (closer to the graphic that Ana posted in his drive by than not), and it should have just been called a “significant” part of the infrastructure. The goalposts have been moving. Lots of laughable comments about how the hostages being dragged around by guys with weapons and cleavers were just there to get medical treatment, and some truly odd discourse about the appropriate number of RPGs to find inside a hospital. IMO, the international community has been embarrassing here and not because of Israeli support. The whole of Gaza receives all kinds of funding and support from international agencies and it’s clear that a lot of those resources went to covering up and supporting terror infrastructure.
  19. There’s a whole black-only version, the Moorish sovereign citizen. https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/rise-moors-group-affiliated-11-men-arrested-massachusetts/story?id=78731313 This story is long, but wild, a guy claiming he was the Moorish Consul to China and the US tried to take a lady’s house. Twice. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/26/nyregion/moors-newark.html
  20. Fucking LULZ. I can’t get enough of all the greatest hits here: “Help me bro.” “You don’t tell me what to do!”
  21. This stuff is spreading and it takes on local flavor which makes it even more delicious. When I was still there, a new “legal” theory had popped up that the Czechoslovak Federal Republic (successor to the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic) was not legally dissolved in 1993 during the Velvet Divorce and thus all Czech or Slovak laws and taxes were illegitimate. They had their own ID cards and everything, with similar results to sovereign citizens. They were also EU protesters and would make little stickers to cover up the EU symbol on the license plates (if they bothered to plate the car). I tried to get some of their ID documents as a souvenir, in a desultory manner, but a bit of sleuthing on the process convinced me I wouldn’t want to answer any potential questions about it from actual authorities.
  22. That video reminds me of the movie Event Horizon (terrible, but has moments) where they see the video of the crew all going nuts and killing each other.
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