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21d ago
Think most teams play close to 80% zone now. But the zone itself is often man-zone - play man if a guy enters your zone.
Chiefs didn’t let Hill go because they wanted to. It was “money”. Even in cover 2 a guy like Hill forces safeties to back up which works really well when you have the best pass catching tight end and gives him more space to work underneath. They had to pay Mahomes and needed some money for their defense so Hill had to go.
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21d ago
I don’t think you can put Purdy and Goff in top tier. They are no where close to Roethlisberger, Brees, and Rivers who probably all be first ballot HOF. Purdy was good with great talent. Goff literally was a salary dump in a trade a few years. And Mahomes career is a little bit in free fall right now as he’s a waiver wire available in all my leagues despite being in his prime.
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21d ago
I was debating who thinks about it more to myself. Date last night I think took 1-1.5 hours getting ready last night after Pilates. Did I spend more time looking at them or did she spend more time thinking about the right outfit to put them on a platter. I have no idea.
But I do believe almost every girl 15-45 thinks about their breasts.
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21d ago
“Perky tits”- this is one of the greatest examples of lying to yourself I have ever seen. Girls think about their breast constantly probably more than men do.
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21d ago
Most Indians would not make the mistake Vivek made because most Indians are not strivers. Culturally Indians are not strivers. Vivek though is a striver and that comes from the selection pressure we had on Indian immigration during his parents generation. The route to the west was to be an engineer or physician so it’s more of a sub-culture of Indians we got in America. Personally, I grew up going to math tournaments but I did it in the American way of I am just having fun. So he’s basically me, but then add on a lot of education pressure where I needed to be great at academics to escape India.
True striver cultures are probably Korean and Chinese. Japan is close but I view Japanese as being more perfectionists craftsmen
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21d ago
Most of the Midwest seems like it can governed fine by either a Dem or Republican. My guess is this occurs for three reasons:
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Dems party more strongly comes out of the working class manufacturing union Dem. Not a progressive teachers union Dem.
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No hedge funds or tech. These two industries are the drivers of wealth inequality and Cali/NYC level wealth inequality develops are more radical progressive left.
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Midwest is much less multicultural and more generic white.
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21d ago
This is definitely not .1% of the population. And it’s developing as the activists class behind MAGA.
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21d ago
Quite honestly “saved by an Indian” and not married. I’m not a “no-Indian” person I just want fewer. Part of assimilation is interbreeding and grabbing a hold of a highly talented but lower class white is a great wait to assimilate if you were a high-caste Indian. Usha’s generation of Indians were highly filtered which is a lot different than H1-B mills people hate.
I think it’s dishonesty to call his book shitting on working class-white people. It’s probably even wrong to call them working-class as his communities drug addiction and social issues were perhaps more describable as welfare-class whites. Appalachia is a weird white place because it’s undergone selection pressure against intelligence and good qualities. Everyone talented left that region including JDVance cousins and uncles.
Many of us were Never Trumpers. I was never quite a Never Trumper but in 2016 I was not a fan. You can’t exclude people from your political coalition who were not initial supporters.
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22d ago
I think Econ 101 would say that in the short term 0% of changing property taxes gets passed on to renters. You have X supply of houses and Y willingness to pay for housing by renters demand equation.
In the long-term new construction of rentals depends on a market required rate of return to develop new properties. Higher taxes reduces the profit on new construction so you get less new construction.
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22d ago
True. I also think it’s dependent on Lego like construction. Downtown Miami has had soaring land values. But if you already build a 40-story condo building 10 years and now land values justify 100-stories you can’t just LEGO construct and add 60 stories to realize the value of higher land value.
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22d ago
From the traditional Christian conservative view changing a man from “has gay sex and identifies gay” to “has gay sex, identifies straight, married with 3kids suburbs” the problem is gay self-identification not sodomy.
And yes I’m using Christianity as more a fertility cult and developed behaviors that lead to male happiness than if you do “X” you go to hell. But also the latter person would be more likely to embrace Christianity and repent in a way that would lead to redemption in the Christian context.
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22d ago
That still sort of fits with can create gays. One thing I’ve found in dating is my taste of female body types seems to have some relationship to (1) earliest gf (2) who I currently have an emotional bond with.
I could see 1.8% of men being very gay and perhaps 1.8-6% having some fluidity. If you repress homosexuality then the extra 4% have less opportunity for gay sex so the gay sex attribute declines in them. They then develop relationships with females which develops emotional bonds and become more attracted to females.
Of course the LGBTQ people would say those people are gay. The bigots would say they can be straight.
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22d ago
LVT isn’t universally considered the 2nd best tax. It has this weird popularity with fairly high IQ people but far less popularity in Econ or real estate finance academia (can accuse this group of bias).
Its big issue to me is it assumes LEGO like construction where you can upsize and downsize building as land values changes when construction in reality can’t be modified once built without very expensive tear downs.
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23d ago
Even the very strict gay/lesbian amount is double in Gen X than the Silent Generation. There is a lot more going on than people listing themselves Bi. The Bi thing explains only the last 10 years surge.
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23d ago
Regardless of whether you like my views. My main question “Were they right”
Is 100% yes. And it’s supported by the data
Silent Generation 1.8% gay. Gen Z 23.1% gay. And a key point here is it’s socially beneficial to be gay now and this is current data not how silent generation polled when they were kids. Silent Generation didn’t start being gay when it got cool. 3.4% of US adults are gay or lesbian (so completely excludes the huge rise in bi) so the Silent generation at 1.8% is still way below.
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23d ago
Honestly I have no idea why anyone would vote Dem at the city/state level other than being part of the local machine. I can understand being Dem/Gop at the national level but at the local level GOP seems to have much higher performance last decade.
If property prices go up uniformly in a taxing district then your property taxes do not go up. This is true basically everywhere.
Your property tax is calculated by
Government Decides Budget = your property value/total taxing districts property value * mileage rate. The last one is just a fudge factor and is the variable solved for.
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23d ago
You can’t see pitch movement in the stands to see the crazy things pitchers are doing with the ball or how they are changing location pitch by pitch on the batter. Speed differences do pop up on the score board. That entire pitcher/batter game you can’t pick up on.
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23d ago
Were they wrong?
With the rise of gay identifying it’s obvious people can be gayed. And then there are lavender marriages which produced children meaning most men can still get off to women. And honestly I think most gays are happier in lavender marriages where they get all the benefits of being a father and their children get a mother (plus not having to do childcare etc).
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23d ago
People still don’t want neoliberal immigration even when the immigrants are more highly selected for outside of let in 100 Einsteins who due to small population numbers do not effect the culture, politics, or aesthetics of a society.
The strongest example of this would be S Africa where the white minority does little crime and contributes significantly to economic development.
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23d ago
Ok but I was also discussing Africa. Do they have a substantial subgroup that’s higher IQ? For other traits yes. Long-distance running, fast running, height (Sudan is super tall) they do have subgroups with extreme traits. IQ you have a different bell curve for N Africa but still below average and then you have a small S African white population.
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23d ago
I agree with your grit and discipline. No one ever accused AB of not putting in the work.
But something does seem to be or creating the diva personality. Not sure what that is.
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23d ago
Being that he’s replying with “impulse control” and “irrational confidence” and using words I also used to describe we it seems like we both in the vibes see a WR personality. Deion Sanders has it too. Terrell Owens/Michael Irvin. It’s not all receivers but a lot of them to seem to have loud personalities and/or impulse control issues at a higher rate than other positions.
I do agree grit (a positive trait) can I explain continuously working and not getting the ball. Running backs seem quieter.
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23d ago
(2). I think the most active Democrats in power believe they will just do the things they want after winning the election. Right side of history beliefs. So toning down and lying during the election is fine. (1) lie about your position (2). Do the thing (3) everyone likes the thing once it exists (4) continue winning elections.
The average Dem voter might believe they won’t do the thing when in power, but people who are more involved in politics are to the left of their voters.
Agree. Most American Indians are strivers but most Indians are not strivers.
Though this may be changing since H1B and other pathways became easier.
It’s one thing I found cringe about Viveks famous quote because he implied his culture was studious but his culture is not studious. It would be like visiting Harvard and touring Harvard and declaring All Americans are geniuses, but of course Harvard is representatives of the average American.
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