AnonymousActuary
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AnonymousActuary
1yr ago
if you read any coverage of DeSantis back when he seemed like the rising star you would realize it is beyond likely, it is certain.
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1yr ago
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1yr ago
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1yr ago
I swear someone had a comment thread recently about late term abortions, reasons for them, how many are motivated by maternal health/health of the fetus versus otherwise...I thought I had saved it but cannot find it. Anyone have any ideas?
AnonymousActuary
1yr ago
all well and good, as long as we recognize the official state religion as such and express the same degree of concern wrt it, as OP suggests
AnonymousActuary
1yr ago
honestly on these hail Mary's I never understand why they don't rush 5. 6 should be enough on the back-end anyways? I guess maybe you are worried about hook and ladder type stuff but Washington kept 6 back to block + the QB = only 4 players downfield anyways. Make him get it out early and there's not a lot that can go wrong (Miami against NE a few years back being one potential counterpoint).
This play was weird though because of the spy, but 6 should be able to block 4 for a while even if they hadn't had the weird spy option.
AnonymousActuary
1yr ago
protest to WWI, was it not?
AnonymousActuary
1yr ago
Anytime election stuff comes up I feel like it is at least worth mentioning that Democratic-aligned bureaucrats conspired to delay the vaccination trial results coming out, preventing an October surprise that quite plausibly would've tipped the election to Trump, at the cost of 4-digit numbers of American lives and this is generally acknowledged and somehow not seen as a huge deal.
AnonymousActuary
1yr ago
Did not have "read a decade+-old order of the stick quote at the motte" on my bingo card for today.
AnonymousActuary
1yr ago
oh interesting - I view CBS much more positively than I do CNN.
AnonymousActuary
1yr ago
I feel like every study I have read has found very little impact on deaths pre-vaccine, with almost all differences being post vaccine. This would seem to go against your thesis?
In addition, you seem to be missing that people would engage on some level of precautions regardless of what is mandated, just by looking around (for example, restaurant reservations dropped drastically in NY while De Blasio was still telling people to go celebrate Chinese New Years)
AnonymousActuary
1yr ago
There's a billion possible things ThisIsSin could be referring too, but a simple one would be delaying the COVID vaccine trials so it could not be an October surprise thereby dooming high 4 digit to low 5 digit elderly Americans to dying in winter 2020-2021.
AnonymousActuary
1yr ago
I'll die on the hill that Red is actually just a great album. All Too Well (the original, not the far-too-indulgent 10 minute remix from later) remains a very good song, probably the best she's made.
AnonymousActuary
1yr ago
(I'll always think there was more to Scalia's death)
uhhh you can't just say that and not elaborate haha
AnonymousActuary
1yr ago
wait I want to read 4 more paragraphs on the A-10!
AnonymousActuary
1yr ago
I think there have been inroads in some areas, ie school choice that are more red-state coded, while still taking your overall point
AnonymousActuary
1yr ago
Is this maybe a good thing? I see no personal challenge to my gun rights living in a red state - I think large Federal gun restrictions died with the % of the electorate who owned a gun increasing during COVID/the summer of Floyd.
If blue states want to pass more restrictive laws: A. That's a plus for federalism, the only way I see to reduce the national partisan temperature B. That provides lots of fun little opportunities for research on differences in shooting and such that a unified national regulatory structure does not.
AnonymousActuary
1yr ago
Divide and Conquer (LOTR) mod for Medieval II was tons of fun.
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1yr ago
The story I heard was Milton Friedman came up with withholding...hated the idea of it as a more small government person, but thought it was the best way to get enough money to win WWII.
No idea how true that is.
AnonymousActuary
2yr ago
It’s absolutely wild how much sortition is involved in the U.S. For a New York resident to visit, I dunno, Dallas—that’s further than Paris-to-Warsaw. The trains are embarrassing, too. We’re firmly in road-trip territory. And the issue is much worse for those who don’t have the disposable income or time to cross the continent for a few days.
Or they could just take a 4 hour flight for less than $300 round trip?
AnonymousActuary
2yr ago
I guess people really love that LSU-Iowa rivalry?
Yes pretty much haha. Caitlin Clark drives huge ratings, and with LSU and Iowa meeting in the championship last year and driving a ton of interest, it was not shocking at all for it to have a seismic rating.
AnonymousActuary
2yr ago
First off, this would be the same methodology and population sampled as in previous years, so whether the total magnitude is correct the change should be relatively close.
I think there are a few contributing factors.
- The men's game is still quite popular, but the increase in NIL and one-and-done (or even none-and-done with the now-going-to-fold G League ignite or foreign teams) has meant that there are a lot fewer familiar faces year to year - in the women's game everyone plays for 4 years (or with COVID, 5 now) so people get to know them a lot better.
- Caitlin Clark is something of a singular force - people like deep 3s and guard play (Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Steph Curry are maybe the 3 most popular basketball players of all time) and she provides both in spades.
- There's a bit of a culture war anger with the LSU vs. Iowa, Angel Reese vs. Caitlin Clark, (or as in the previous game), America's sweethearts versus the basketball villains: https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/story/2024-03-29/ucla-lsu-america-sweethearts-versus-basketball-villains LSU's coach being an accused homophobic trump supporter just makes it even more culture warry.
Whatever Florida is doing is clearly right and everyone else should copy them.
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