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  1. This is 100% truth. Preach!
  2. Anyways @Brisketexan, now you have a disgruntled India giving lipservice to China (and visa versa) because India is mad at being called to the carpet for their Russian fuel strategy. Not sure anything you did was going to change their selfishness and countries like India will only listen to dollars and cents. Modi <> Xi are meeting Sept 1: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/china-india-modi-xi-sco-meeting-relations.html
  3. Think of it in the reverse. Would Cowboy Nation be celebrating if we signed TJ Watt for 4 years for $136mm gauranteed on a $188mm deal? Or would be saying, "Why would we commit that much money to one player on the defense and hamper the future of the team as if we are one defensive player away from being a championship team! what an idiot! A fool and his money! This is why you need a real GM, all Jerry does is overpay, etc. etc." I think we all know it's the latter. Half because it's Cowboys Nation and Cowboys Nation has a well-earned callous of cynicism and skepticism and negative view of everything that happens (until it's proven to be good) because we've been mismanaged for nearly 3 decades. But half because it's true.
  4. That's a big loss. Her agent must have told her she is in line for some bigger future projects.
  5. The highest paid non-QB in history, 4 years 188 million dollars, 47mm a year? People are actually celebrating their team signing up for this for one player who is ineffective against the run and has 1 career playoff sack and is always an injury risk, especially as he adds more mileage to his tween frame? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills seeing people actually upset and disparage Jerry Jones for this one when this is one of the times of the day that the broken clock is actually right.
  6. Comparing this is sorta unfair because a) it's a very rare and outlier type of a deal that a rare team would do and b) Oakland gonna Oakland. That's NOT to day Dallas couldn't have gotten more potentially for Micah, but I hardly think they were fleeced (especially when you consider the money that would have had to be gauranteed and over the terms).
  7. Also, thought it was funny that rumors were he was boarding a plane to Green Bay last night and his camp and Dallas were like "oh no he just went to see a doctor about his back" this morning. mmmHmmmm
  8. I LOVE this trade. I was resigned to accept that Jerry was going to be stupid Jerry and give him a fully guaranteed contract that is outerspace money. Instead, we get to trade him, get two picks and a day 1 starter, and will not have another anchor of a contract around our neck to actually rebuild for the future. The only thing better than trading Micha would be to trade Dak and get out of his contract and tank this year for the future. Also, good luck to Green Bay on this. That is a TON of money to give a guy with 1 career sack in the playoffs. Better hope that's just because Dallas sucks and isn't tied to his inherent inconsistency and/or injury in the future.
  9. We agree path 1 is stupid and path 2 is best if that is all we have. We have it figured out! I'll be VP. Brisket/Vegas in 2028
  10. While I agree, since 80% of mass shootings (or whatever the actual number is, you get the point) are straight white males, then the priority should be figuring out how to not stoke the flames that break that demographic, whatever that might be. At least following your logic.
  11. Just goes to show on a fundamental, human level-- black, white, brown, straight, gay, trans-- we are all beholden to the biology and neurology that governs our corporeal machines. We are all at risk of our brains breaking and then committing evil because we are all capable of wickedness (and it can be argued innately wicked depending on your spiritual beliefs).
  12. As a disclaimer, I completely agree it's an absurd primary argument and cosign with your extreme sarcasm here... but.... and I haven't looked at the data.... but.... American population per capita, by ratio, gross total, whatever metric you want to use has the next country beat by 10x at least of people who are medicating with SSRI's and it's probably not good for the ole mental wellness. The conversation should of course start with the fundamental "why are Americans more mentally ill and have more mental issues than the rest of the world where we need to medicate and treat the symptoms with the best we have" and there are a few threads smattered about on here that get into it, but...yea.
  13. Hindsight is 20/20. Everyone has situations where they missed out on something massive (cue teenager emoting at the word "massive") for whatever reason. Maybe you sold all your nVidia in 2018 Maybe you had a chance to invest in a company that you thought was stupid that later would have made you wealthy and retired Maybe you sold NFLX after the Qwikster debacle For me, it's very topical and upsetting. In late 2020 I turned down an offer to join a little known (at the time, to mainstream America at least) big data, software and services company called Palantir. The company at the time had a market cap of $40bn @ $20 a share and I had an offer with some meaningful equity. I thought their compensation package was low (and it was, compared to the spiking covid market we will all remember) and I thought they were too much a Fed & Academic / R&D play (they weren't, though it looked a lot like that at the time). 5 years later, will be a $400bn valuation @ $156 a share. Millions of dollars never realized because I was "smart". Funny because on a long enough timeline, "smart" and "coward with no vision" are almost the same thing.
  14. We all know the idea of a strawman (we are messageboard herectics, after all),but what has become popular these days (at least to me) is the use of Steelman/Steelmanning and how it's being used wrong in popular media. (saw derka posted about quinn, so trying to get the thread back off track which--ironically enough-- is better than on track. the thread that proves the rule via exception).
  15. Should have posted here my bet, but agree with you completely on prediction markets being a good options for all the reasons you suggest: Put up $700 for 10,000 shares (@ .07 cents ea.) for LaNorris Sellers to win the Hesiman. If he wins it's a payout of $10,000 (13x or 1300% return on investment). My logic is a) he looks good b) it's a good value and c) SoCar SHOULD (or at least COULD) be 5-0 and a top 10 team going into their first real test against LSU in October. At the very least I should be able to double the money and shave some profits and revisit the landscape by then.
  16. Back at it again: Put up $700 for 10,000 shares (@ .07 cents ea.) for LaNorris Sellers to win the Hesiman. If he wins it's a payout of $10,000 (13x or 1300% return on investment). My logic is a) he looks good b) it's a good value and c) SoCar SHOULD (or at least COULD) be 5-0 and a top 10 team going into their first real test against LSU in October. At the very least I should be able to double the money and shave some profits and revisit the landscape by then.
  17. What’s interesting about the puts and takes of American students going abroad and the continued international students coming here will be watching how it plays out over the long term— 10 to 20 to 30 years. We have more liberally arts minded kids who care about things like politics and quality of life at a minimum and probably are in targeted minority groups that feel existentially unsafe at a maximum (lgbt+). In all cases upper middle class to organize and finance your way out as an expat student. On the other hand you have hungry and motivated students coming in to top flight and increasingly second tier schools even for hard sciences and STEM from China, India and Nigeria in droves (and as a way to get around the general lottery/quotas these countries always fill up quickly to get into US). These kids are increasingly staying, getting good jobs, having families and first generation American kids etc.
  18. I was talking about how you mumbled something vaguely about our fertilizer purchases as an equivocation for India buying Russia fuel as full on contrarians. It’s not just about detangling the mechanisms and slowly moving away from an entrenched supply chain when it comes to India and Russia. India actively ramped up and increased their spend with Russia huge starting around 2022 exactly because Russia needed to make deals and needed the money for their unjust war. India has proven to be the self-interested opportunistic buyer of this fuel on purpose, and they (Modi) are actively giving the finger to the West and US when diplomatically asked to stop. Usually with a mushed mouth equivocation of “US and Europe used to buy a ton of Russian oil so yall are hypocrites and something something fertilizers”. What is the best play for someone like Modi? I don’t know, but it’s been tried for 3 years. The elections last year signaled hes lost some support in parts of the country and, while not a referendum, definitely gave him and his party a reality check. Maybe hitting him/India in the pocket books can further erode some of support internally if it translates to economic downturn. Big if, considering I think US imports is only 20% of Indian trade math.
  19. Central Intelligence starring The Rock and Kevin Hart. I thought it was pretty funny actually with Jason Bateman being the funniest part in his limited screen time.
  20. While Modi and Xi are meeting soon (first time since 2020 I believe), I think you are right. India is a self-centered opportunist and those relationships won’t be rebuilt overnight. But keep an eye on it (and BRICS getting closer in general).
  21. Look, I get it. You read an economist article once every week or so. There are some of us who follow India and BJP specifically a lot more closely. Is there a more artful way to be punitive with India here? Of course, especially since Trump has ruined the global discourse screeching “TARIFF” to everyone. But in this case, I actually don’t mind it and think it’s more signal than noise using it as a quasi-sanction in order to try and engage in behavior modification for Modi. Modi who, it should be noted, is every bit a nationalistic strongman (with just as much ambition) as the bad world leaders of fame today; Trump, Putin, Netanyahu.
  22. Major oil purchases from China ($62B per annum) and India ($53B), together buying ~85% of Russia’s entire seaborne crude US imports of Russian uranium ($600M), palladium ($900M), and fertilisers ($1.3B). apples and oranges when it comes to scale ($53bn vs 2bn) And yes, India getting punished for defying the entire West’s wishes and being on of two countries propping up Putin is pushing them to thaw with China and cozy up more with Russia. That sounds like making an excuse for India.
  23. Okay sure I’ll trust you. Thanks. Are we having fun yet?
  24. What part of “stop buying fuel, bouying the Russian economy and currency in the face of Western sanctions, and being the lifeblood of the machine that is massacring Ukrainians” are you missing, though?
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