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wvParticipantIt just feels like we’re dead, doesn’t it?
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Maybe if someone goes North and nabs a white-walker….maybe then the centrists will believe Winter
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipant“…. it has become increasingly difficult to separate sensible health advice from what should be consider, well, insane…”
Well this is what I’ve been saying for a coupla years now. This is my mantra. Its not just ‘health advice’. Its politics. Its everything. Its ‘increasingly difficult‘ to know what is accurate and what is not.
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vI don’t think this is fixable either. Anyone at anytime can publish anything they want on the internet. It’s not hard to dress up any piece of nonsense and make it look legitimate to untrained eyes.
And the media certainly isn’t vetting much in their eagerness to fill a 24 hour news cycle. I know a lot of questionable studies that never would have seen the light of day in the past are now being paraded in front of the public as if they represent consensus. They’ll publish anything they think will generate clicks.
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I agree with that, but the problem has many facets. I just think a corporotacracy is by nature kinda ‘anti-truth’. Not always of course, but in general. Profit over truth.
I mean everytime i hear about a ‘scientific study’ now i have to ask who sponsored it, etc. How do i know which corporation influenced it, funded it, etc. And so forth. I wish there was just ‘science’ but there’s not. There’s ‘science spawned in a corporate setting’. Which is different.
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vwvParticipant“…. it has become increasingly difficult to separate sensible health advice from what should be consider, well, insane…”
Well this is what I’ve been saying for a coupla years now. This is my mantra. Its not just ‘health advice’. Its politics. Its everything. Its ‘increasingly difficult‘ to know what is accurate and what is not.
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vwvParticipantRich Hammond@Rich_Hammond
The problem here is, this basically is what he said before the Super Bowl. And then…
This issue still hasn’t fully been addressed on a transparent level.
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In a way it annoys me, and in a way I understand why a coach would not want to give details on an injury issue.
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vwvParticipant“..13 of the 22 starters on the Pats Suoer Bowl winning team were drafted in the 4th round or later…”
I wonder if this is unusual or about average.
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vwvParticipantI see Magic Johnson has quit on the Lakers. Strange situation out there in LA. Maybe they should just hire someone that’s worked with McVay.
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vwvParticipantwikileaks:
Tweets by wikileakswvParticipantThe largest insects in the history of this planet (as far as we know) were dragon-flies and griffin-flies.
27 inch wingspans.Frankly I was a bit disappointed to read that. I figured there had been insects as big as houses.
Evolution has failed me, once again.
“…The largest insect fossils ever found are griffinflies and giant dragonflies, says Matthew Clapham, a paleobiologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Subtle anatomical differences separated the two groups.
With wingspans that could reach 27 inches, the largest known insects of all time are griffinflies from the genus Meganeuropsis, Clapham says via email. The largest of their fossils were found in France and Kansas and were 300 million to 280 million years old. By comparison, modern dragonfly wingspans top out at about eight inches…”
bugs:https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/animal-science-insects-biggest-moth-weta-butterfly/w
vwvParticipantjrry32
Aaron Rodgers is a prick. That has been more or less known for a few years. When enough of your former teammates dislike you enough to trash you to the media, it means you’re a prick. Think about how many QBs have multiple former teammates go to the media about what jerks they are. It’s not a long list. But Rodgers and Big Ben are prominent names on it.
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Yeah they are jerks. But would we trade Goff for Rogers? Probly. Maybe.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantDo you think the Rep-Amerikunz and the Dem-Amerikunz are ever gonna…um….wake up?
wvParticipantI officially do not want to live in the USA anymore. I currently have no alternative….
There is just nowhere to go. People hate each other for no decent reason whatsoever…
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Well I say, we join Sauron.
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wvParticipantWell yeah, there’s all that kind of thing. The Maga crowd.
But then its way worse than that. I wish that was the only problem.
But there’s the other crowd. The folks who had no problem with Obama droning people to death and continuing the whole corporate-imperial death-project.
Put them two groups together and you have 90 percent of the American voting public.
I keep going back to the marx quote about Capitalism making people ignorant.
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vwvParticipantI dont know what this means:
“…think of mankind’s never-ending debate over artificial intelligence, Grant says. “When you put a quarterback in a position and you talk about how cerebral he is and you give him flexibility to make some changes, guess what? … You develop A.I., because it has the capacity to run without you. And then when it runs without you, it’s like, ‘Wait a minute!’ But in the same breath, if you’re not actually able to stay ahead of it, it’s going to outthink you and it’s going to say, ‘Me making the decision is the better decision.’”
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vwvParticipant“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Clive Barker“When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time. ”
― Lady Gagaw
vwvParticipant…did Seth just say the voters aren’t interested in the Russia thing? …um, maybe someone should tell the democrats that…
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vwvParticipantNothing about books in that article.
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Books work best in a crock pot.
Btw, when you and cappy get to hell, you will be baked at 325 degrees.
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wvParticipant“…Noteboom’s noticed former center John Sullivan’s impressive football knowledge and film study, Saffold’s weight room work ethic, and Whitworth’s leadership on and off the field in year one…”
Well i know the Rams coaches know a lot more about it than i do, but as I’ve noted b4, I am concerned about the loss of Sullivan’s ‘football knowledge.’ I cringe at the idea of having a young Center. I just do.
If they are gonna have a young Center, I’d prefer it was a great-talent.I never get what i want.
…like in 99, I wanted Jeff Hostetler and i got stuck with that Arena Football guy…
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantOooh, you got to see the hitman Bret Hart, i see. He had a stroke a while back, i saw:
wvParticipantAs usual (going back to the Mack draft) I am in favor of drafting a Center with the number one pick. If there’s a cant-miss prospect ie.
To me having a great center is like having a great DT.
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vIf they think they have a center in Allen, why would they draft one high?
As I say in the first post in this thread, Kromer has a long and very good record with centers. So I would trust that. If they don’t think Allen can do it, they will draft one (and probably not high in the draft). If they don’t draft one it’s because a top OL coach who has a good record coaching centers believes in Allen.
Mack wasn’t the best center over the last few years. If you listed the best 10 centers who played over the last decade, at best 2 would be first round picks. You don’t need a 1st round pick to have a good center.
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If they think Allen is a top center then sure, but I’m saying I think center is the number one priority (to me). Its not arm length or weight or that stuff either — its ‘football intelligence.’ A great center has be intelligent and be able to handle all them calls and cues and football IQ things.
Seems like the OLine kinda cracked a bit in the later stages of the season (other than the cowboy game).
For me center is a higher priority than pass rusher or safety or cb or lb.
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vwvParticipantI’ll get Overstory. Sounds like somethin i might like.
Not heard of Mooney? He Luuuuuvs agitating white people 🙂
He’s another Lenny Bruce. He’s on that level. Comedian’s comedian. Havent seen the vid below, so i dunno if its worth skimming…w
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wvParticipantAs usual (going back to the Mack draft) I am in favor of drafting a Center with the number one pick. If there’s a cant-miss prospect ie.
To me having a great center is like having a great DT.
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vwvParticipant“…In that moment, the Cretaceous period ended and the Paleogene period began….”
So, it was kinda like the election of Donald Trump.
We are in the Trump-a-zoic period, now.
btw, I’m surprised scientists dont have a “BC/AD” type thing for the asteroid thingy. BA – Before Asteroid. AA – After Asteroid.
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vwvParticipantWV,
You’ve gotta read that book. I recently finished it and learned a ton. Was going to post about it here.
Really, really good history. Chomsky and Zinn would be proud of Immerwahr.
(I’ve switched things up recently. Used to buy my books. Now I’m checking them out of the library when I can, especially new stuff. But this book is worth purchasing.)
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Yeah i was thinking about ordering his book. Usually i wait awhile until books end up ‘used’ on the net and i can get them for two or three bux.
But then, lately I’ve refrained from buying political books. They tend to sit around my house for ages and i never get to them. Too many. Plus…as i enter the late-stages of my life I find it hard to find ‘reasons’ to cram more political details into my mind. I ask myself “whats the point” in me learning more ‘details’ about the corpor-o-tacracy (or whatever one wants to label it). It doesnt help me any to know more details, really. I already know the basic blueprint of how it works and how it has worked. So is it really the best use of my limited time to learn more ‘details’ of the disgusting biosphere-killing work of the corporotacracy? I mean, its like reading more about Hitler or Stalin. It wouldnt be a bad thing to learn more details of their butchery, but…what is the point? So…thats where I’m at with reading pol books. But watching short vids is different for me. I’ll do that. But a whole book? It doesnt seem worth my time anymore. Thats a job for young people. (I might buy the book just so i can give it to a young human)
As far as what the writer is doing? Great stuff. Zinn-level stuff. (which is high praise for me)
I have always known that I knew very very little about the ‘territories’. A much needed addition to general readership american ‘pol lit’.His name just appeared on the side of my youtube screen not long ago. Thats how i stumbled across him.
Mainly nowadays, when i want to read, at night, i find myself drawn more to stories, novels. I’m reading “A People’s Future Of The United States,” and an autobio by the ornery comedian Paul Mooney. Mooney was Richard Pryor’s mentor back in the day. He said Richard really spent a lot of time reading Malcolm X’s writings. He understood radicalism very well. But politics came second to cocaine for Richard Pryor. He loved drugs. Loved’em. Another leftist wrecked by drugs.
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vwvParticipantI find most of the modern horror movies too stupid to be scary or interesting. I have never read a Stephen King book and I probably never will. I am quitting before I go on a rant.
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Crimson Peak Commentary. The gothic horror film was…awful. And stupid. But the director’s commentary in the bonus section of the dvd was – awesome.
So…ya know…there’s horror commentaries. Commentaries of horror. Try it, you’ll like it.
I’m waiting for a killer fried egg horror film, btw.
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