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Should Joe Biden & Alejandro Mayorkas serve life in prison with Laken Riley’s murderer?

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Phenomenally Frantastic said:
Interesting take.

The number one purpose and responsibility of the federal government is to ensure “the common defense of the people.”

That’s responsibility #1.

When these individuals callously and corruptly are criminally negligent in their stated responsibility and sworn oaths, it can be argued they are culpable for their negligence and subversion of our laws and safeguards.
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You should just stick to yelling "Welcome to Moe's!" as enthusiastically as you can.
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New Anthony Jeselnik special trailer

tumorboy
mnole03 said:
I stand corrected. I’ll need to listen to it. I’m curious to hear how Jeselnik views it.

Dave certainly isn’t your average knuckle-dragging Rogan comedian. His commentary on the societal pretending involved with Trans stuff feels pretty culturally relevant.
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Think Anthony meant it more of doing the bits without punching down. Jim Jefferies has a good trans bit. Where he says your generation is the most progressive ever. Similar to how the previous one was the most progressive ever at that point. But you’re also the most entitled and spoiled generation ever. Similar to how the previous generation was as well.
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Iowa WBB 2024-2025 Season Thread

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UptownHawk said:
Rhode Island - 95.9% chance of winning; 78-56 (22.6)
BYU - 97.7% Chance of winning; 86-57 (28.6)

As someone noted above it does look like some data from last year is still included. I compared Nolan to HHS last year. For the most part they were pretty aligned, but HHS would have outliers where they were impactfully different. It seemed HHS was generally more accurate.

I generally am anxious to see the Vegas line as it seems to be the most telling, but more times than not it aligned (or close to) HHS.


The Net has a component that rewards teams that win by more than 25 points. Last year MSU had a better Net than you would have thought, but they had a lot of cupcake blowouts. The year before Nebraska seemed to benefit in a similar manner.

The NET on HHS is last years NET. I have not seen one for 2024-25 season.

Last year the committee used RPI but will be moving to the NET this season. They did modify the Quads compared to the Men and the system used last year.

HOMENEUTRALAWAY
QUAD 11 to 261 to 351 to 45
QUAD 226-5536-6546 to 80
QUAD 356-9066 - 10581-130
QUAD 491+106+131+
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Thanks again for the Rhode Island and BYU lines.

Yep, these systems seem to love powderpuff games too much. To me, you have a lot of creampuffs games at the beginning of the year it becomes a little more negative in my book. If you don't play <#150 and <#75 in your first X games, I figure you don't have confidence in your team to roll the dice. Probably just trying to pad your win-loss record to get fans into the seats for all I know.

Thanks for the Quads grid. When I was thinking about creating my own ranking sys, I had a problem to solve in a couple of areas. This grid helped to at least apply a possible solution to them. Not used the exact same way, but gave me a template to grade games.
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Anyone speak more than one language?

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InsaneHawkJJP said:
Great topic OP.
A couple I know have a 6 and 3 yo that they have been teaching French. The 6 yo is pretty fluent and the 3 yo isn’t bad either. The mom is from France and still has family there they visit a couple times a year.
I wish I would have done that with my kids at a young age.
I really want to learn a second language also, maybe 25 is the year I do it.
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The friend I referenced has 5 year old twins that are half Nigerian. She uses English, Spanish, whatever dialect their dad speaks. It is really cool.

I’m enjoying it far more than I would have. I mean I was a terrible student and who would have thought that at almost 49, I’ve discovered that me gusta alprendor!
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Nukes to Ukraine!?!

What Would Jesus Do?
sober_teacher said:
Ukraine joining NATO was never more than a discussion point, and was nowhere near becoming a reality prior to Putin invading.
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They made it part of their constitution. Talks working out the details and timeline with us, the EU and NATO were already proceeding.

Much more than a discussion point.

Does Ukraine's stated intent to join NATO justify Putin's invasion? We certainly don't think so. But Putin just as clearly does.
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Holy $hit, Ole Miss after game presser

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Gonzo Bloor said:
KF certainly had "better" opportunities from the sounds of it in the mid- and late-2000s. Matt Campbell has had better opportunities. Dabo Swinney turned down NFL and other colleges (including Bama according to rumors). Greg Schiano turned down the Michigan job to stay at Rutgers. I'm sure there are plenty others.

There's nothing wrong with a young coach trying to grow his career by climbing the ranks of better jobs. The difference is that Kiffin seems to jump immediately at the brightest shiniest name that comes along every time. He coached Tennessee ONE year before jumping ship for USC. He coached three seasons at FAU before jumping at the Ole Miss gig.

You like him, good for you. I don't, partly because of the little regard he seems to have for the players and schools that entrust their program to him, by splitting so soon after being hired. He also just seems like a doosh to me.
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I understand what you are saying, although, I don't think anyone was under the guise that he was going to stay at FAU for the remainder of his career and that the Ole Miss job was a good jump.

The TN-USC thing is certainly up for debate. I just put myself in his shoes in that if I was a football coach, and I got hired by a really good program like NC State or Pitt or something but then there was a change at Iowa and they called me and I felt like this was my one chance to go and coach at the school that I love, I would have done it too.

I think for the jobs that he didn't get fired from, he left the programs and/or departments in better shape than when he got there.
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New Anthony Jeselnik special trailer

tumorboy
funksouljon said:
AJ, while having a sharp tongue in his comedy, does seem to be pretty laid back. He jokes about how many times he has killed off his parents and how family members want to be included until they are, and then have buyers remorse when it happens. e.g. his uncle becoming a molester, but I can't find that interview.

I enjoyed his tv show as well. But I think he does well enough that he has eff you money. So kill the podcast when it isn't fun anymore. We should all be that lucky.
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Grinding for 20 years. 8 of the first by eating mostly instant noodles. It’s probably why he has difficulty maintaining weight. His body built up a decade of tolerance of essentially not eating. It’s cumulative similar to a person who has spent their entire life overeating.
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Anyone speak more than one language?

bcherod
Way back in the ‘80’s, an old bf went with me for drinks with my colleagues. We were speaking English but mixing with Spanish Portuguese and French. We didn’t even realize it the bf asked if we always talked like that.

But we spoke that way all day long at work. Everyone was at least bi-lingual.

When the word is better in another language we always just use it without thinking.

There are drawbacks though. Like the nights you dream in different languages. It’s weird.
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Anyone speak more than one language?

SeaPA
I had a good friend (she passed away a few years ago) who made her living as a translator. I don't remember exactly what all she spoke, but she indicated that with the combination she could communicate with virtually anyone, anywhere. She worked at times with the government (had pictures with several PotUS, VP, heads of other countries, and other high-ranking officials), but also did contract work with tv networks and various large events. She went to a number of the Olympic Games, World Cups, funerals of heads of state & celebrities, and a bunch of incredibly cool things like that.
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