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  1. Thought experiment. Now that you know the truth, would you wish you didn't? Go back to the matrix and eat your fake steak and live a life of blissful ignorance?
  2. The Caitlin Clark effect! In fact, the new CBA deal should be called "The Big Beautiful Caitlin Clark Agreement" or some other naming convention that memorialized CC's contribution to the explosion of the WNBA. It would be accurate and funny. I actually came to this thread to check in on the dildo shenanigans but see nothing new there. I guess the hardline the league took (complete with criminal charges) seems to be an effective deterent.
  3. It is very tough because it truly represents a dillema. You have such a tiny group affected by it (e.g. men in women sports outrage!) that if you abandoned the vocal adn proactive support, would eliminate the GQP ads ran every 15 minutes as talking points but also abandoning that tiny group in the name of pragmatism and "will fight that fight later, let's win first" mentality would upset a lot of people and it is a bad signal. Same thing with Gaza. It can be argued that the role of politics and politicians is to fight and protect that tiny group. The weak need the masses and the strong. But it can also be argued on the otherhand, political issue triage and prioritization is important and you have to actually be able to win elections in whatever environment you find yourself competing in, to actually affect change.
  4. How do pants just fall off like that with him standing still? No running, jumping, walking, just standing there and they fall. Not buying it, had to be staged or edited.
  5. Politics 101. Don't care, had sex won election.
  6. He's a straight white man (e.g. can win the general election in this climate) and he's showing chtuzpah and fight (e.g. relating to people) and a brand of satirizing and take down humor (e.g. AOC-lite) that connects with the vibes/aura/zeitgeist that has been discussed the last page. It's his to lose.
  7. Harris sounded drunk when she was allowed to speak off-script. Biden showed during debates and other times that he was lost. Trump showed glimpses he lost his fastball but I think his handlers were very involved (especially at the end). Gavin Newsome (his tweets) are absolutely a breath of fresh air and I am here for it. Let's go!
  8. More Gavin Newsome hilarity and less unhinged conspiracy theories plz.
  9. She's just extremely hood. South Dallas / Oakcliff if memory serves. She acts like a typical person from that area would, if they were thrust into the limelight with opportunity outside what they were raised, trained, and helped to operate in. FWIW, her bf thought the arrest was an overreaction and she apologized to him. If you've ever dated a hoodrat, you know that some level of minor physical assault is culturally normative (hoodrat culture) and it's a common lovers spat.
  10. How are you doing? If memory serves without going back a few pages, you are selling into a FED space that is tripping over dollars to pick up nickels this year with DOGE, budget cuts, new administration, etc.
  11. TIL @Brian Fantanadidn't go to UT but to TTU and somehow everything all makes sense, while still not.
  12. Internet Gold. ::quietly looks around:: I am one of those people...
  13. How dare you?
  14. Saw you cross posted this in CR. Super topical because I'm revisiting Lincoln in the Bardo right now. Saunders will go down as a generational talent.
  15. I find his brand of caustic humor funny. I thought it was funny when he was bumping the Biden thread (pro-Biden, anti-MAGAT) too.
  16. Lots of Levites and Benjamins in Arkansas, eh? haha
  17. Detaining in a mental hospital is another form of imprisonment. What's your main point?
  18. Upon more reflection this does make a lot of sense to me. I guess I was speaking from the lens of Judaism being the Patriach of the Abrahamic religions (e.g. Jacob/Israel) and the Israelites/Hebrews being God's chosen race, with both Islam and Christianity being offshoots and later "grafted onto the vine". But I see that interpretation actually does fall short when you explain it that way and, to the point of the current events, makes the Israel/Palestine and Jew/Muslim dynamic even more contested and impossibly complicated and inherently conflicted when looking at current events from a religious (non-secular) point of view (again, not a given based on @BrickHorns comments of actual drivers today).
  19. In that sense it is interesting. Not to turn this into a full-on religious discussion, but I've long said Christianity and Islam have more in common than they appreciate on the surface with respect to Judaism being the odd man out of the three Abrahamic religions (or the sole legitimate odd man in, depending on your perspective).
  20. Just wait until they stumble upon the AI boyfriend/girlfriend thread.
  21. As I mentioned, the "create your own track" is the only thing that could curb the boringness, but agree with you it's fleeting. To show you just how insane Tetris is, the perfect game ever just came recently, and it had to be aided by technology. A perfect game for end of the world and only two games to choose from until you die scenarios: https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/01/02/1658246/tetris-has-finally-been-beaten-after-34-years
  22. I could dust off punch-out today and in a couple of hours be at Tyson. Give me 48 hours and I've beat the game. Then what? Can't have that be my forever game. Same with Tecmo bowl. I downloaded the retro bowl mobile app (a dupe of tecmo bowl, https://retrobowlgame.io/) and while it's fun and lasts longer (you won't get bored based on the gamification of badges and seasons, etc.) it gets redundant too.
  23. You can narrow it down to a shortlist of 5 easy: SM3 Tetris Zelda MM2 Excite Bike — Assuming the prompt means you can only have 2 forever— replayability has to be high. Tetris you can play forever and not get a perfect game. Excite bike gives you the ability to create your own tracks for variety. But it’s boring. MM2 is fun but easy to beat. SM3 has a lot to it, as does Zelda. — Final verdict: 1) Tetris 2) Zelda
  24. I got that. Pretty obscure if you aren’t a cowboys fan.
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