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Surrendering my will as of [insert current date]. Still not your internet lawyer. YNWA.
The best thing about the 12 team playoff controversies is that nobody involved could get within two touchdowns of the top 3 seeds, and therefore I don’t have to care which cannon fodder they select.
I thought an 8-team playoff would've been enough, I don't support going past 12, but one way or another, now that we're to a place where undefeated teams do not get left out, the only answer to any playoff 'snub' whining is "damn, you probably should've just won all your games"
December 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The best thing about the 12 team playoff controversies is that nobody involved could get within two touchdowns of the top 3 seeds, and therefore I don’t have to care which cannon fodder they select.
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It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
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I don’t love LLMs because, to me, “reading something big/grand and consolidating and incorporating it into my worldview and understanding” is one of the great *pleasures* of life, not one of the chores to escape. I don’t hate LLMs for the same reason— I feel bad for people missing the pleasure.
December 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I don’t love LLMs because, to me, “reading something big/grand and consolidating and incorporating it into my worldview and understanding” is one of the great *pleasures* of life, not one of the chores to escape. I don’t hate LLMs for the same reason— I feel bad for people missing the pleasure.
Jordan Love just made a worse pass than Caleb has made in his whole Bears career, which is not a low bar.
December 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Jordan Love just made a worse pass than Caleb has made in his whole Bears career, which is not a low bar.
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I dunno man the concept of actually owning something you pay for must be like a drug if you're under 30
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Gen Z are going retro, with studies showing a resurgence in people buying tech in the modern age that can be dated back decades.
www.bbc.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I dunno man the concept of actually owning something you pay for must be like a drug if you're under 30
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the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism
December 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism
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manny diaz won the acc before miami
December 7, 2025 at 5:00 AM
manny diaz won the acc before miami
I need Ryan Day to stay at OSU for decades, because he is the Big Ten’s true follicular successor to Gene Keady, and we deserve to see how that story plays out over the years.
December 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I need Ryan Day to stay at OSU for decades, because he is the Big Ten’s true follicular successor to Gene Keady, and we deserve to see how that story plays out over the years.
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DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
December 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
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there are three types of standard FIFA acts
-utterly tasteless shit in the service of their own egos
-utterly gross shit in the service of various global autocrats
-corruption
today was much more a 2-3 combination but they gave us a little bit of 1, as a treat
-utterly tasteless shit in the service of their own egos
-utterly gross shit in the service of various global autocrats
-corruption
today was much more a 2-3 combination but they gave us a little bit of 1, as a treat
Honestly FIFA doing this is singularly FIFA, like the time it paid for a shitty music about itself. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...
United Passions - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
there are three types of standard FIFA acts
-utterly tasteless shit in the service of their own egos
-utterly gross shit in the service of various global autocrats
-corruption
today was much more a 2-3 combination but they gave us a little bit of 1, as a treat
-utterly tasteless shit in the service of their own egos
-utterly gross shit in the service of various global autocrats
-corruption
today was much more a 2-3 combination but they gave us a little bit of 1, as a treat
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drake and morgan wallen is fueling the nwsl we might really be cooked
me to NWSL players: you listen to too much drake.
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
drake and morgan wallen is fueling the nwsl we might really be cooked
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I'm creating a college football world peace prize and giving it to Diego Pavia.
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I'm creating a college football world peace prize and giving it to Diego Pavia.
This collection of policies ends us with our country entirely reliant on Chinese-made EVs within 15 years. Seems…suboptimal?
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This collection of policies ends us with our country entirely reliant on Chinese-made EVs within 15 years. Seems…suboptimal?
We are absolutely headed here:
December 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
We are absolutely headed here:
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If this ends up going down as it currently looks like it will, we are subbing out “Rowdy Audi” for “Torches and Pitchforks Audi” all next season.
also, someone please tell me what berman's salary is. if it is over $1m/year i am going to suplex a bus
December 4, 2025 at 4:07 AM
If this ends up going down as it currently looks like it will, we are subbing out “Rowdy Audi” for “Torches and Pitchforks Audi” all next season.
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also, someone please tell me what berman's salary is. if it is over $1m/year i am going to suplex a bus
December 4, 2025 at 3:50 AM
also, someone please tell me what berman's salary is. if it is over $1m/year i am going to suplex a bus
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i respect the hell out of the spirit and trinity for going nuclear with this
December 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i respect the hell out of the spirit and trinity for going nuclear with this
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If Trin is going to be forced out of the league she absolutely should drag Berman and all the other owners who are advocating to underpay women down with her. Make them look stupid, keep pointing out how this is their fault.
December 4, 2025 at 3:51 AM
If Trin is going to be forced out of the league she absolutely should drag Berman and all the other owners who are advocating to underpay women down with her. Make them look stupid, keep pointing out how this is their fault.
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It's just such an obvious win for every NWSL club to have Rodman in the league. A massive endorsement for the entire project, that all their Brand partners will enjoy hearing about.
We should not be here.
We should not be here.
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
It's just such an obvious win for every NWSL club to have Rodman in the league. A massive endorsement for the entire project, that all their Brand partners will enjoy hearing about.
We should not be here.
We should not be here.
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Folks, just going to use this as a jumping off point to say:
Hate is not bad. Hate, like any other emotion, is good when appropriately deployed and bad when inappropriately deployed.
In that one way, no different at all than love.
I know that's not a very Christian view. Thankfully ... Jewish.
Hate is not bad. Hate, like any other emotion, is good when appropriately deployed and bad when inappropriately deployed.
In that one way, no different at all than love.
I know that's not a very Christian view. Thankfully ... Jewish.
Yeah I don't know how to fully express that I feel like my soul is basically damaged by the way I feel about the regime & its agents at this point.
I don't know that I've ever really felt this level of visceral moral CONTEMPT for other humans. It veers into cold hate at times in ways I worry about.
I don't know that I've ever really felt this level of visceral moral CONTEMPT for other humans. It veers into cold hate at times in ways I worry about.
y'know, i never hated a person until i was in my late 40's. ask anyone who knows me, i'm a squish. it still doesn't come naturally to me, but holy hell i *hate* every single person involved in making this DHS/ICE reign of terror possible.
December 4, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Folks, just going to use this as a jumping off point to say:
Hate is not bad. Hate, like any other emotion, is good when appropriately deployed and bad when inappropriately deployed.
In that one way, no different at all than love.
I know that's not a very Christian view. Thankfully ... Jewish.
Hate is not bad. Hate, like any other emotion, is good when appropriately deployed and bad when inappropriately deployed.
In that one way, no different at all than love.
I know that's not a very Christian view. Thankfully ... Jewish.
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So the lesson is: if Republicans freak out, spend all the money they can in the last two weeks, and get good rural turnout, they can limit Democratic overperformance relative to 2024 to 16 points.
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
So the lesson is: if Republicans freak out, spend all the money they can in the last two weeks, and get good rural turnout, they can limit Democratic overperformance relative to 2024 to 16 points.
An all-out anti-fraud agenda, in all of its many forms, would be politically unstoppable so long as the messenger seems like they actually care and are as angry about it as their (many, many, possibly Reagan-levels of) voters.
just spitballing here: a good slogan for dems in 2026 or 2028 might be BAN SCAMS
November 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
An all-out anti-fraud agenda, in all of its many forms, would be politically unstoppable so long as the messenger seems like they actually care and are as angry about it as their (many, many, possibly Reagan-levels of) voters.
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat