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  1. New month: down about 10 lbs and 2-1/2" off my waist YTD. I'm bigger across the shoulders, arms, and thighs, so hopefully I'm also gaining some lean mass.  Chest hasn't moved, but I carry a decent sheet of extra weight on it (no moobs).

    I have more energy than I have had in a long time.  And that started with the healthy eating moreso than losing any weight, but it's only improving.  I'm waking up earlier and less drowsy while not fading in the late afternoon.

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  2. 2 hours ago, 52-80 said:

    that said, i have a hunch:  its a cultural decision made by the mother/family early on.  CDC reports average age of 1st birth in 1970 was ~22.  average age of 1st birth in 2000 was 25.  Today, it's closer to 30.  Less educated families also have more children than educated ones.

    So it was a cultural norm that women don't go to college (only 10% had a degree) but stay home and raise babies. Today, having a kid at 25-30 means you will already have a college degree, and can enter/return the workforce with good income.  If you already have multiple children with only a high school education, the math doesnt work out to get a minimum wage job and leave the rearing to someone else.

    There's a couple things wrong with this and they are common mis-beliefs.

    1) Only HS dropouts have more kids.  For every other category the longer a woman stays in school, the more kids she will have.  There are probably issues with causality leading to this common misconception. 

    2) Also, the age of first marriage and first child stays the same across every other education level.  Waiting to establish a career isn't really a class or education thing (although it has changed over time).

    3) Low income families are more likely to be dual-income and more educated women are less likely to work.  This is a no-brainer once you think about, but we often celebrate the power couple and working mom more than the "normal" family.  Still, the reality is that couples comfortable living on one income are the ones that do it, and educated women are more likely to find partners that provide that lifestyle.

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  3. 9 hours ago, JosephStang said:

    No, you dumb clown. Nobody has ever envisioned that geometry before I did. Ever. In the history of the human race.

    A toric? Pretty sure that's super common in string theory.

    8 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

    Wait, is OP Eric Weinstein? Doesn't he have some grand universal theory he's been complaining nobody takes seriously?

    People take Weinstein's theories seriously.  His main complaint is that so much of the $$$ and computational power in physics go to string theory.

  4. I might as well chime in this year.  This ended up being be a sort of a longcat, but I don't visit this thread often:

    Started the year 225 with a Halloween goal of 205.  I know that it doesn't sound like much, but I'm also trying to gain around 20 lbs of muscle in that time, so I'm really trying to cut closer to 40 lbs of bad weight.  See below's response to Brew for a full picture, but I'm trying to regain some not-insignificant, long-lost upper body strength

    No drugs. CICO/WFMM diet, which for me means cutting carbs (mostly in the form of snacks and binge meals), while just all-around eating cleaner foods.  I cook 90% of my own meals, so mostly replacing rice and pasta with veggies.

    Stress and sleep end up being my weaknesses more than anything.  I use caffeine (either plain old coffee or GTE/Vit B) in the morning to help with sleep cycle.

    Light strength training with walks/runs/bikes around the neighborhood for exercise.  My boy's spring soccer is about to start and it'll give me 2 days/week for more structured cardio when that happens.  I'm terribly inconsistent about exercising. With 4 kids and a salaried desk job, I basically just try to take advantage of what I get. 

    I'm currently below 217, with essentially no strength or muscle gains (or losses for that matter).

     

    On 2/3/2024 at 9:37 AM, Brew said:

    I have to find a trainer going forward I think. After another elbow surgery and with knee surgeries in my future I can’t find a work out regimen that works for me. I dropped 40 pounds quickly after getting my heart issues resolved, but I’m bouncing around 255 now and can’t get consistent enough workouts in to be meaningful. Was down the month of January after this last elbow procedure that is probably going to cause long term pain/soreness, so I’m not really looking forward to restarting. Going to get back into yoga to try to increase flexibility/elasticity some to start with. 

    I'm closing in on a decade past 4 elbow surgeries followed by months of PT.  Without knowing your exact situation, my only advice is to listen to your body. Figure out what's painful in a good way vs painful in a bad way - if that makes sense.  Know your limits, do what you can, and eventually you'll be able to add more.  And I'll add that patience really helps and that, for general health, walking is underrated.

  5. On 2/7/2024 at 9:57 AM, BurntOrange&White said:

    I don't see what Sherman Act has to do with what NCAA is saying Tennessee did. NCAA isn't saying you paid him so much or the length. It's the inducement of the deal. 

    "Your honor, restricting timing of NIL deals reduces player leverage.  Players have maximum leverage before they sign and enroll."

    "So you are saying that players have the most NIL leverage when they are only recognizable to a small number of people, mostly recruiting board fans?"

    "Yes, your honor, because we are not paying them for the marketability of their NIL."

    "Then what are they being paid for?"

    "To sign, enroll, and play for the University of Tennessee."

    "And this is legal in Tennessee?"

    "Technically, no, your honor, it is not.  But we are also using legal pretenses... carefully worded contracts and such, you honor... so that we can pretend to not be doing that."

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    I'm not taking a stance either way, just pointing out the absurdity of the situation.

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  6. 15 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

     

    I went back and.looked who else.

    Mario Christobal at Oregon and Heupel at UCF were other notables.  Heupel is really the only one that worked out.

    Honestly, Kelly might be runner up out of that group.  UCLA's problems are above the HC level.

  7. On 2/5/2024 at 12:20 AM, HtownHorn said:

    Chaisson isn't even that great. 11 starts in 4 NFL seasons, 5 total sacks. His career at LSU was all hype as well. 9.5 career sacks. Cosmi stoned him in 2019.

    Bad overhyped DEs/OLBs are a pet peeve of mine.  Chaisson wasn't good and was a net negative when you consider him vs the run.  OU has had a handful of overhyped DEs that almost single-handedly let worse Texas teams beat them.  Eric Stryker comes to mind, and he was voted as an All-American.  For whatever reason, sports media loves the dudes who can get upfield quickly even when the run goes right into the giant gap they just opened.

  8. 40 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    With the way that we process, I don't think a single class can kill. You recruit 27 and bring in 6 transfers and keep 6 or 7 from a class like that and that is 40 guys to build a team from. That's fine if you did well in the year before the crappy class - If that earlier class had 26 guys and 6 transfers, that is basically a full 85 man roster after all the chaff has been rooted out.  The key is a healthy roster churn like Glasscock helped manage.

    I don't think it can now in the portal era.  You can easily churn through 100+ players over 4 years without being an unethical pos.  Pre-portal, with normal attirbution, it was hard to overcome.

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    The last time someone did a deep dive on recruiting rankings, wins, and draft picks, the conclusion was that quantity absolutely destroys quality.  As an example, one of the worst places to go as a top 100 player if you wanted to be drafted was Alabama.  Their bust rate was in the 70% range, but they just had so many that they were sending a handful every draft and that drove perception.

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  9. On 1/25/2024 at 7:38 PM, Elmer_Fudd said:

    Hopefully Baker can keep Brown committed and land one (or both) of Zion Williams amd DJ Sanders.  This class is going to need at least three DT's, maybe four.

    Yeah, we have a few guys on the roster that just aren't going to grow into the position or have shrunk (Ross, Swanson, Bledsoe).

    Bo could coach, but this has to be the weakest position as far as recruiting.

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