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How will they rule ??!

  • YES - Qualified

    Votes: 41 82.0%
  • NO - Disqualified

    Votes: 9 18.0%

  • Total voters
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Oklahoma could blow out IU.

Those teams (IU, SMU, etc) SUCK.

Let them bang week after week in the SEC... they're not .500 teams.
The SEC gets more money and more promotion than anyone and then it’s just constant complaining about how hard it is because they can’t get every team into the playoff. This is the cost.

Never understood the cheering for conference stuff.
 

I wonder why. lol.


Ellen Greenberg had more than 20 stab wounds to her chest, abdomen, head and back of her neck
And the Dem darling Shapiro (PA) ruled what...2, 3 times as AG that it was suicide.
 
Well, after 1.5 games, the great 12 team experiment is shit. I was pretty excited about it, despite seeing how free agency has destroyed college sports. But this is just as bad as the first 2 rounds of the NCAAW tourney.

Fact.

Theres no way IU beats Bama, Ole Miss, or USCjr, especially if they had to play them back to back to back.

ND in the SEC is a .500 team at best.

The playoffs is a joke.

Oklahoma could blow out IU.

Those teams (IU, SMU, etc) SUCK.

Let them bang week after week in the SEC... they're not .500 teams.
I was against the playoff expansion. This playoff reminds me of the 1984 season when BYU was named NC. Played nobody but kept climbing in the polls till they were on top at the end. No consideration of the conference they were in and/or schedule. Pretty much the same in '90 when Ga Tech and Colorado split the NC. At least they played in somewhat respectable conferences.

Can't remember who but someone on TV said the committee did not hardly consider SOS. Unreal if true.
 
Here’s an excerpt from that article:

Everyone can agree that racism is bad, just like they can agree that poverty is bad, or disease is bad. The question is whether a given instance of racism or poverty or disease is so bad that, when it comes to eliminating or reducing their ill effects, all other human values, including the value of independent thought and feeling, should be trampled. If the answer is yes, you have placed your trust outside of the nexus of contingent human relationships into the hands of a larger, crushingly powerful machine that you believe might incarnate your idea of justice. That is totalitarianism, or as George Orwell put it in 1984, the image of “a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”
 
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This kind of mentality is a really bad thing. I wonder if we could even prosecute a real war with the current mindset of the military.

This is the other thing that warhawks in the Ukraine war thread aren't understanding.... We'd win a war with Russia but we'd lose tons of men and material just out of sheer incompetence. 12 years of dei hires and combating white nationalism instead of training has us at our lowest readiness level since before ww2. We don't want to go to war right now.

25% of our f35's can't fly. Many of our nuclear subs don't have enough crew members to actually leave on extended deployment. Navy ships are overworking many sailors due to manpower shortages. SF groups aren't getting near enough members. Only the Marine corp is still recruiting and training to 1990s levels.
 
WSJ: "The suspect in a car ramming that killed at least five people at a German Christmas market is a Saudi exile and vocal anti-Islam activist."

Shoot the SOB anyway.
He's not anti islam. He's using their code that allows muslims to lie to non muslims in order to promote islam. Dude has a history of violent jihadi shit.
 
TIAA/CREF predicted our current inflationary situation in 1996:

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Let's ask Grok: adjusting for inflation, what would a burger and fries in 1996 cost in 2025.

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Adjusting for inflation, a burger and fries that cost around $5 in 1996 would be approximately $10.67 in 2025, using an average annual inflation rate of about 2.4% from 1996 to 2023 (the last full year available for inflation data). However, recent trends indicate a higher-than-average inflation rate, particularly in food prices.

A viral advertisement from 1996 by TIAA-CREF humorously predicted that a burger and fries could cost $16 in 30 years, which would be in 2026. While this seems high compared to a straightforward inflation adjustment, recent reports highlight significant price increases in fast food, with some cities seeing burger and fries combos approaching or even exceeding $16 due to inflation and other economic factors. For instance, a Five Guys receipt showed a burger and fries costing $24 in some instances, reflecting the surge in food prices in certain areas.

Therefore, while a direct inflation adjustment suggests a cost of about $10.67, market trends and the cost of living in certain areas might push the price closer to or even higher than the $16 predicted in the 1996 ad by 2025.


BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED!

The price increases went up drastically over the covid pandemic. You did not see the average price increase slightly every year to what they are now.

These prices went up over 75-200% from 2019 to 2024



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Notice how McDonald's in San Francisco has to gaslight you into believing that's a "Large Fries" even though it isn't:

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Yea... Inflation is way over the 9% or so they say. It's closer to 16% by some people i've seen.
 
I was against the playoff expansion. This playoff reminds me of the 1984 season when BYU was named NC. Played nobody but kept climbing in the polls till they were on top at the end. No consideration of the conference they were in and/or schedule. Pretty much the same in '90 when Ga Tech and Colorado split the NC. At least they played in somewhat respectable conferences.

Can't remember who but someone on TV said the committee did not hardly consider SOS. Unreal if true.
And now this game is about to hit sucksville. What a shitty weekend for sports.
 
Oh I don’t know… how about the millions of illegal foreign nationals from all over the world who invaded our border over the past 4 years? Pretty sure a whole bunch of them aren’t Muslims. Those folks certainly aren’t assimilating. They’re here for all the free shit we hand out to them.
People don't assimilate in months, DA. Look at the mafia types. Irish gangs of a century ago. Germans who kept their own culture/language for decades.
 
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This is the other thing that warhawks in the Ukraine war thread aren't understanding.... We'd win a war with Russia but we'd lose tons of men and material just out of sheer incompetence. 12 years of dei hires and combating white nationalism instead of training has us at our lowest readiness level since before ww2. We don't want to go to war right now.

25% of our f35's can't fly. Many of our nuclear subs don't have enough crew members to actually leave on extended deployment. Navy ships are overworking many sailors due to manpower shortages. SF groups aren't getting near enough members. Only the Marine corp is still recruiting and training to 1990s levels.
What does this data have to with whomever you think are warhawks?
 
Man, thanks for this link. I’m halfway finished. Superb.
I've read a bit of it so far, and I think it is a seriously shitty article. I picked a random sentence ... 61 words. Writers use a run-on sentence either when they cannot fit an idea into straightforward sentences with hyperbolic descriptors that are often unnecessary and distract from the main point of the sentence or article all while creating a false sense of superiority between the extremely verbose author who experiences diarrhea of the fingers and the supposed simpleton reader who must decipher the many directional changes in the stupid-ass run on sentence. I've seen a few of those.
 
I've read a bit of it so far, and I think it is a seriously shitty article. I picked a random sentence ... 61 words. Writers use a run-on sentence either when they cannot fit an idea into straightforward sentences with hyperbolic descriptors that are often unnecessary and distract from the main point of the sentence or article all while creating a false sense of superiority between the extremely verbose author who experiences diarrhea of the fingers and the supposed simpleton reader who must decipher the many directional changes in the stupid-ass run on sentence. I've seen a few of those.
Definitely went the opposite way of how I was taught in journalism. “Don’t use a $10 word when a nickel one will suffice.”
 
** Wise Words Department **

"The internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."

—Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Steven (R-AK), explaining the workings of the Internet during a debate on net neutrality
 
Definitely went the opposite way of how I was taught in journalism. “Don’t use a $10 word when a nickel one will suffice.”
The tricky thing is that the Democrat party USED all those weird catch phrases and terminology. He's trying to deconstruct it so it makes sense. I get the point, which is cognitive dissonance doesn't work in the long run. People can only be guilt tripped into voting against their best interests a limited number of times. Eventually people are going to say, "Enough of this, this is stupid." Like Lindy Li.
 
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