In a way, the internet is like a big novel/TV-series/movie, but it's choose-your-own-adventure and has a "VR" quality to it, and the slow temporality (wherein a movie needs to wrap up in 90-180 minutes), helps slow-drip it all the way home.
We effectively all live inside of a video game, when using the internet.
Philosophers have struggled for millenia trying to grasp and understand our reality--from science to theology, to epistemology itself--and now, technology is plodding along and constructing a haphazard Disney-land edifice on top of it based on the simplest, most impulsive, most repetitive, lowest common denominator of behaviors and desires--we're in a new Tower of Babel.
One of my favorite philsopher's/theorist's said, "Disney-land's most powerful (and unintended) effect is that it actually obscures the fact that we already live in a Disney-land."
If the bulk of this stuff has any merit, then I'd have to assume that Jim Harbaugh has absolutely made almost every enemy outside of people who are at Michigan.
As more and more is revealed it sounds like everyone has a network of videos/spies on literally everyone and are basically passing everything around like it's an extended family potluck.
Yet the fact that the hammer would go so swiftly onto Jim + Michigan feels like he/we have made (or naturally acquired) A LOT of enemies over the years. Which actually sounds right considering Harbaugh has vocalized paying players since way before the NIL, has a metric ton of NFL connections (unlike any of the other HCs), could take an NFL job in a second, and has a brother who has been feeding him coordinators, etc. who have been lights out.
I hope we destroy Ohio this week.
Nothing could be a sweeter revenge to shut them and all the supposed "sports analysts" talking out of their ass.
ESPN already cleaned house a while ago because they are absolutely spilling blood in losing eyeball-hours and thus advertising bucks to the internet.
In turn they (and everyone) has had to resort to becoming hot-take merchants and spectacle peddlers.
We live in an arms race of over-mediation and stupidity, and it will end the same as the current abundance problems (opiod overdoses, obesity, consumerism, suicides, needless gun violence), oh wait, there's no end in site.
The only solution is to tune out (exceedingly difficult).
Hopefully there's no nationwide event that forces us inside our homes for years glued to our screens...oh wait....
Nobody's clicking on this same event if it were Ole Miss or FSU, etc. so ESPN/etc. won't cover it like the daytime soap-opera coverage they did for this.
Just like when we beat OSU in 2021, it sparked Super-Bowl-level coverage of Michigan (the picturesque snow/Big House also helped the cinematics along) for far longer than deserved, it's because we drive clicks--and Michigan is a public-ivy thus has alum in power, higher-status, class, and income.
Retired NBA players on some youtube-video/podcast-thing (you'd never see this in mainstream media, it disempowers the theatre) were just talking about this a month or so ago, the execs, the owners, advertisers, etc. they want big-market teams in the Championship, the quote was something like, the refs were going to make it so "in order to beat them by 2 (points) on the scoreboard, we really have to beat them by 17 (points) in the game"
I'm so burnt out on this I don't even care any more.
This is why banks, lawyers, and governments always win, I'm just one person, I have so many other things to do in my life, and I don't have the mental energy to keep pouring into all this.
NIL let other teams do what Bama clearly did as well as SEC, from a decade old expose, social media, open secret, and hell even Klatt alluded to it a week ago.
Same-year Transfer-elegibility also makes it so coaches weild no strong power over a players ability to leave and go get starter reps elsewhere.
That's actually very underrate, recall being 18-22 and seeing if you could make a decision that would pull you away from everything you love for possibly 2 years, zero chance you do so, especially if you're already getting payed a little bit of money.
Saban's clearly a great coach and a brilliant football mind, and knows how to build a program, but their juggernaut status was absolutely bolstered by a clear and certain competetive advantage.
there's simply way more money in being inflammatory than truthful or insightful today
thus is the medium. sorry internet dorks and news dorks, media and/or technology is simply not the way
i can't remember which sociologist is was but he showed the the strongest, most effective form of birth control (plummeting pregnancies/fertility) was actually: smartphone ownership/usage, above anything (e.g. birth control, condoms, education, etc.)--and clearly news isn't communicating any truth either, the population is clearly now schizophrenic.
we live in the age of the grifter, from politicians to celebrities to billionaires and apparently even universities/medicine
I actually like the cupcakes, it's also significantly how those little schools fund their program and even other sports as well.
It's always been fun to meet the new visitors from far off lands (that's underappreciated the US is huge/diverse) and witness different tailgaiters/traditions/aesthetics they bring to Ann Arbor every year.
Also, I dated a girl who went to a cupcake school and to be honest, gamedays which much more about the day/activities/socialization/comedically-hopeless/self-deprecating and FAR LESS heart-wrenching at least.
Plus you get to travel to the "big schools" to follow your team to many more different places and all in early Fall, the timing couldn't be anymore perfect.
It was a nice change of pace.
Equality and consistency is actually a terrible thing. Variety is the spice of life.
I'm sure someone in the field knows the specific metrics/numbers.
But, Michigan absolutely has one of the largest online-presences (we for sure have one of the largest living Alumni bases). I'm sure that has to do with the alum-base/size being in more white-collar jobs, vague-internet/tech-ey jobs, and being in higher managerial positions, etc. who will be more online in general, and have time/convenience to click around.
Not to mention Alum in some very high/influential/public positions in sports/business/marketing, etc.
The big ivies have this even moreso of course, but they don't have #2-ranked football teams, going to the CFP 2x consecutively, and looking good for a 3rd straight trip.
So covering UofM is always, always, always going to bring more clicks than all but a handful of universities, and if those few universities' teams are not #1 or #2, going to the CFP, etc. then you don't even have to make the ostensible "dark horse" argument to convince your boss/editor/reputation to get more clicks.
This is assuming good faith, which we know doesn't exist for a majority of the internet as-is, it's all clicks and whatever-bleeds-leads, so UofM will draw attention/stories in bad faith either way, so when they can get it in good faith it's no-holds-barred.
Like in 2021, when we beat OSU, the media was covering us for a week like we won the Superbowl. It was hard not to imagine all the alum strewn about ESPN, marketing departments, editors, high-rises in the New York, Boston, studio production-crew, etc not being influential in that coverage.
The OSU TDs weren't of the "trucking" variety either
That's exactly my point, you show something over and over for long enough, again and again and again, and people will start to attribute qualities to something that never were there before in the first place.
It's why eye-witness testimony is notorious less and less reliable the more the person is interrogated.
Which kind of calls into question all 24-7 debate, dialogue, hardcore-politics-newscycle, and sportstalk, etc. via the internet as an inescapable self-straying from reality through re/mis-remembering ("Tower of Babel"--and many, many other mythopoetics touch on similar conundrums/fatal-flaws), but alas, the people must poast!!
Agreed, they'll have to run two-back sets (which I'm not opposed to, but isn't what we've been into lately) if they want to have Edwards in there reliably.
Motioning him in and out of the slot to see the defenses would be a great idea too, but not sure we're at that level of complexity.
Also, if it weren't for the 9/11-planestrike-level-video-replay-brainwashing of Edward's 2 TD Homeruns against OSU all year long, people would not assume Edwards was some sort of trucking RB.
He has always relied on getting away clean and fast. He's an elusive back, not a bulldozer.
Anytime 70, 80, or 90 Million, etc, is at stake, you better believe a lawyer/legal team is going to be involved.
People make these expenditures even to save face, as just acquiescing, from the outside, can look like an admission of guilt, which wouldn't look good to future employers (and no one can predict the future).
I've been noticing a lot of out-of-town/state students' parents coming to the games this year--increasingly more than last year and the year before, just steadily upticking.
Could be something with making something exciting for them/their kids now that UM is consistently nationally relevant--never underestimate the influence of parents and their $$$ for branding/reputation/etc.
Avoiding being a homer and trying to forget the years of painful mediocrity (and a 3-9 season, oof), it's easy to forget how electric a player like Denard Robinson was with his feet.
His sheer acceleration + deceleration, cutting ability (which would tear any other players ACLs & High Ankle ligaments if they attempted), top-speed, and vision were, to this day, arguably the most spectacular feats of running athleticism ever seen on a football field.
Sadly his QB skills (almost as many INTs as Throwing-TDs) were not in the same galaxy as his running skills, nor was his build/body-type, really anything like a running-back's would be.
He was a unicorn, fun to watch, and unanimously a very kind human being from everyone who met him.
U of M will simply not let anyone transfer more than 2 years worth of credits towards their Michigan degree from any outside institution (and limits how many outside credits can go towards your declared major), and won't necessarily honor any credits toward the "Major" unless they can directly identify the coursework/requirements via that college's syllabus requirements which must correlate "enough" with what UofM would have had you do in their own coursework.
So the declared major you graduate with on your degree, "Bachelor's of _______ in ________" nearly always requires 2 full semesters of coursework plus another 2 semesters of Michigan's undergraduate degree requirements (a mix of languages, math/statistics, social studies, and arts), which equals 2 years of classes (4 semester, with Spring/Summers off, unless you're that driven)
This is not an athlete-specific thing, all transferring students are subject to this with zero exception.
The idealistic arguent is that UofM will simply not let people attend here for 1 year and then "graduate with a Michigan degree" (many colleges will allow this, EMU for example). And to maintain higher standards to maintain their reputation for their graduates (which is still quite good when you go to apply for jobs)
The cynical argument is "they want more of your $$$, and wring you for everything they can get."
The internet as a whole is a content machine which relies on capturing as much of your time and attention as possible (the metric advertisers pay for).
The most salient emotions are anger and fear (needed most for survival--historically but not in the age of abundance), so if they can't scare you (news), they'll piss you off (media).
There's not been a single white collar job I haven't spied on where a large amount of time I saw them just dicking around on the internet, and if podcasts/advertisements are any indicator, I'd say a fair amount of blue collar jobs are plugged in all day too (when they can, due to safety reasons)
Some of the best minds of their generation (and some mediocre minds as well) have been heading over to silicon valley for the last 30 years to more or less figure out how to make these products more addictive--or how to distribute it more efficiently (and famously, none of them allowed their children to use any of it), some of the brightest people during my time at UM all headed over to work for those companies, some stayed, some only did a few years (Space X sounds like a nightmare), but all helped push the ball forward.
At least with evolution you are rate-limited, dealing with time-scales, incredible complexity, and competing organisms which balance nature and its organisms quite eleganty (the opposite of this we call "Cancer"), but these computer systems are operating in a totally abstract (literally away from the ground, place-less) and are able to hone in on our neurology like nothing we'd every encounter in nature (go look at the physical size of a lethal dose of fentanyl, it's the amount of crumbs on your face at all times lol)
This is all to say, be careful with this machine. Everyone is scared of the nuclear bomb blowing up the world, but the silicon semiconductor has already done so.
Lmao, you're literally citing how Jordan is transparent about him being brand whereas LeBron is quite literally not transparent about him being a brand, "more than an athlete", sure dude.
His brand is worth billions of dollars, his career-path, management, "character", was already being planned when he was 16, (the "hero's journey", refusal of the call, threshold, mentors, tests, return home, new life, etc.--literally all films, marketing, politicians, public figure use this, it may even be ingrained in us like language, parenthood, seeking of wisdom, etc. but I digress)
He's more like a politician or large corporation with his "interactions", it's all PR-speak.
Like many people who instinctively dislike politicans/marketers because they are not being honest in any way, nor authentic human beings, and just toting talking-points (and the converse people love politicans for their "authenticity/humanity/etc.---correctly-perceived-or-not), a lot of people are suspicious of him because frankly he isn't authentic, he speaks like an HR-dept. because that best protects the brand.
Also a lot of his things are put-ups, he never actually read any of those books he claimed he did, and when asked what he liked, he basically couldn't speak on a single thing that was in that book (lol).
For example, Jordan may be an harsh perfectionist and unrealistically expect that of everyone around him to the point of unhappiness, but he also wouldn't sit there and pretend otherwise; James is a put up, no question.
All my Blizzard Treats, Sundaes, and Dilly Bars, shall be un-taxable, and neither shall my inheritance be fiancially assessed when I pass down the Ice-Creamdom to my dairy-blooded successors.
Lol, at least the vaccine debates have data (albeit horrible data on any side). UFO's have no tangible hard evidence anywhere.
The UFO's always peaks most whenever the country is at War, Economically Collapsing, and/or the Public Sentiment trust/supsicion of the Government is particularly terrible (thus conspiratorial accusations begin--which, to be fair, all governments of course do, it's more a matter of, "to what end", and, "conspiring" is technically just having a closed meeting to plan something).
And yes, if they can get you pay attention to the spectacle, then it has fully accomplished it's job as a complete distraction. Just like how "racism" "white privilege" and all sorts of other buzzwords entered newsmedia's vocabulary right around the time of this thing called Occupy Wall Street which wanted to tax the wealthy/corporations, and took the country by storm (Gore Vidal: "The 'A' in 'USA' stands for "Amnesia").
When governments are captured by corporations, the citizens will respond with all sorts of distrust, suspicion, and civil unrest (sound familiar?), and will come up with all sorts of accusations/beliefs, some of which are spot-on (economy, housing, jobs), some of which are pretty wild and outrageous (UFO's, Russians, Chinese, etc.). Their emotions are definitely justified--something is wrong--but their rationalizations as to what exactly, however, are not necessarily accurate.
Sorry I'm more interested in public health statisticians than "The New York Times" and their "deep dive" (the regurgitation of marketing buzzwords are such an immediate indicator cluelessness).
You've got shit for brains bro, and it's a moral imperative to call out bullshitters when you see them.
You project things I never said, and then attack them as if they were posited, Don Quixote, except he was funny.
You've made so many conjectures it would be a waste of my own time to respond. You're dull and lack the ability to think critically, which you conflate with writing deluge.
There are heavy genetic components as well, as factors like height tend to have a strong genetic component (~80%) in addition to any nutritional element.
This is drivel. Learn to re-read what you write. It will help your thinking, because clearly it needs help.
I could pull more quotes but starting with the basics is more important.
My guy, you just cited a study who's entire dataset only goes until January 3rd, 2021.
For reference this "study" only includes data from when Trump was still the president. To cite it now is not just misinformation but disinformation.
I think we'll just have to agree to disagree. By all means take more covid vaccines if you desire, it's your medical choice. But I'd ask that you refrain from making statements about vaccine procedures and pandemic response with extremely poorly dated references and information, seeing as we are still in the very middle of pandemic outcomes. I wouldn't have replied otherwise.
"All of Europe" = Finland, Norway, etc. those are the gold-standard in comparables.
Your reply to in regards to Sweden is erroneous and non-sequitor. They are not comparable to the US in any way. They are comparable to Finland and Norway. They paused vaccine for Under-30, full-stop.
"largest and most thoroughly scrutinized trials of any history [sic]"
This is the way one argues for legality of best practices, not veracity of truth.
Fossil records show humans became physically shorter, smaller, weaker, and had much poorer dental health as agriculture practices began (just ask your local physical Anthropologist!). The purported upside was an increase in population which led larger numbers of people who could then violently exterminate/conquer the physically bigger, taller, healthier, but less numerous hunter-gatherers.
And yes, we've been selecting for crops for thousands of years, and in the short-run GMO's have provided, again, a sort of proliferation, but long-term, we do not know what the effects will be.
Our human selection-process and hybridization has a much softer-GMO impact, like dog-breeding, whereas GMOs (which should really be called Genetic Engineering & GEO's: Genetically Engineered Organism--branding/propaganda is a very important tool in advertising and compliance), is a stronger-GMO, because it deals with genetically engineering DNA by replacing certain genes with foreign DNA itself.
There's no doubt that that type of engineering is far riskier than Natural Selection as it massively shortcuts all sort of steps in a Billions-of-years-old complex system (IVF, C-section, are also great examples of bypassing complex systems that some find disagreeable, in favor of words, desires, and ideas, which both demonstrably have poorer health outcomes than natural conception).
Sweden paused vaccines for anyone Under-30 back in 2021, within 3 months of vaccines they saw a trend. They also have the lowest excess deaths in every age bracket, in all of europe from 2020-2023.
Even the U.S. paused Johnson & Johnson's vaccine for females, then didn't recommend it for females, and then it was removed completely from use on humans.
All the big pharma companies (Pfizer, J&J, Purdue, Astrazeneca, Galaxo, Eli Lilly, Merck, Novartis--Moderna = no only becayse they've never MADE anything before), are all currently at this time paying the largest fines in US history, 10's of Billions of dollars in fines, for: falsifying research data, kickbacks to physicians, making false a misleading claims, monopilization, and off-label promotion (and that is what they were successfully CONVICTED of in our very pro-corporate legal system, they were ACCUSED of much more, but settled).
To paraphrase, their quote was, "When you get caught speeding on your way to Billions of dollars, you're happy to pay the ticket and go on your way."
The corona virus vaccines have been the most profitable medical product in history.
Clearly to make any judgements about James' son's cardiac event is not possible without access to their medical records.
However, general skepticism and distrust in 2023, is absolutley warranted, the corruption and consolidation of power around the globe we're currently experiencing has never been seen before in human history and isn't even comprehensible to our everyday senses.
The lawyer simply has an in and there could be 100s of millions of dollars in this case. It's just like when there's misconduct by a teacher or an officer, or any other organization backed by potentially limitless money, I'm positive in those cases the legal firm could give a shit about "the school children" or "excessive force".
Have we all forgotten why pharma, oil conglomerates, food industries, auto industries, airline industries, big tech industries, etc. etc. all have total monopolistic control? It's because of the legal system and how lucrative it is--your doctor's medical advice is STRICTLY based off of what they can and cannot be sued for. That's it.
I'm not trying to be cynical but let's not be naive to the way the world works. It's certainly less physcially barbaric than chopping eachothers heads off, public hangings, torture, and mutilating wars, but people today aren't any less good or bad than they are today, there's just more standards for the physically painful things (but notice the mentally painful things have yet to be addressed in any serious way).
When there's blood in the water, the sharks gather (which I'm told is actually an overstatement when it comes to actual sharks, so comparing them to lawyers is doing a disservice to the damn shark).
EDIT: Also I'm not in anyway condoning or hand-waving, it is a practice that should be stopped, but to think it's unique to Northwestern, or football, is willfully blind.
It seems like it's a real problem, real damages were done, and real atonement and remediation needs to take place.
But not for one second do I believe this private law firm is acting in any good faith towards that, only that Northwestern has huge pockets, an elite academic institution that's going to get reemed for cash because of something a football coach did or allowed that doesn't have a single thing to do with academics or higher learning, nor do even university presidents, deans, etc really even come from academia, in any true way, any more--which sounds insane to actually say but is true (like saying a restaurant chef doesn't really come from the kitchen lol). So it makes sense why they are constantly caught suppressing and legalizing their way out, like modern CEOs they'll golden parachute out and then just find a new place to go to.
We live in the age of the grift, and it's one of the biggest reasons no one wants to work, has retired early, and are retreating into a form of paranoia, solipsism, and choose-your-own-reality mindset.
I feel like the Nebraska game in 2021 was pretty wild and very important, maybe it was the strip sack to end it, or one of Haskins's runs, but that was a rare shootout (for 2021) which it felt very crucial to win both for Harbaugh and for the team's confidence after stomping Wisky and going on the road for the 2nd week in a row against maybe one of the best 3-9 (lol) CFB teams ever.
Maybe I'm a fool, but that felt like a great boxing match including a very feisty Adrian Martinez, and we ulitmately won by going for the KO, not because he beat himself. It felt like a great win.
Agree there's definitely way more to the story, and he's factually misrepresented at least one thing.
For one he claims "they took away my scholarship", which is diametrically opposite, that paper he signed was precisely so he would be guaranteed his degree for free at Michigan regardless of anything.
I probably should look it up, but I believe he had the same hamstring injury history in high school.
I'm not trying to absolve UM at all in this, at least potentially, but Team doc's, trainers, coaches, staff, and the player themselves all collaborate in the process. If the docs thought the injuries look severe under imaging, and their manual testing seems to confirm, but the player wants "full go" and/or the opposite, if the imaging looks fine and the manual testing seems to confirm it's fine too, but the player refuses to "go", or wants to "do it their own way", etc. that can very quickly lead to a lot of friction.
Now if he indeed strained his hamstring "6 times", then you have 6 (or more) huddling of the docs/staff/player which would obviously compound any sort of friction.
The fact that he said his dad came in and "snapped" and "snapped crazy", etc. sounds like there were many differing channels of communication going and certainly points to strong disagreement and conflict.
And seeing as he "went to indiana" to get cleared by a non-team doctor, only further sounds like there was a full disagreement, and also a sort of weird perception of "authority", as if UMich's medical team of docs/surgeons/trainers are all going to fall over a private visit to a team doctor in Indiana (I think I might even know which doc lol).
But yes, we'll never know the full story, precisely because UM has zero benefit to comment, and have their own internal system and policies, and you know, are doing pretty good at both football and medicine (and a few other things probably) at this point in time.
Georgia is likely the most talented in college football, but OSU's roster is as talented as anyone in the country.
Based on our TCU game (which the country watched, sure we look like we would have gotten smacked by UGA), but a) the law of transferrence doesn't apply to football (just psychotherapy/medicine) and b) I think our coaches put together a gameplan that gives us a puncher's chance, especially with JJ, as it was the first game put on his shoulders after Corum goes down.
OSU had the best offense in the country, Stroud was the #2 overall NFL Draft pick, and OSU had what 3? 4? future 1st-Round wide-receivers on their roster?
Georgia was so talented sure, but OSU was up 11pts (and driving to another TD were it not for a timeout-interrupted converted 4th down puntfake that was/would have been converted—the timeout was late imo) with 8 minutes left in the 4th quarter.
Georgia could have easily lost, and we could have easily won, resulting in a rematch against OSU. But could we have beat Georgia last year, absolutely, they were very good, but they weren't gods.
All the fans have PTSD from '21, but the '22 team wasn't nearly as dominant defensively. And JJ has proved that he can gunsling against anyone (~50pts), he just needs to watch it with the pick-6's and we need deeper talent at RB and a little more in-game run adjustment.
It was a surprisingly disappointing end to a great season, but the team was improved from the year before, and looks like it will be even better this year.
A very large percentage of males in prison were themselves molested/sexually assaulted as children and adolescents, often very violently (it can be psychologically and developmentally devastating, obvious but often overlooked)
This is one of the many reasons imprisoned child molesters/pedophiles are attacked and regularly killed in prison—often requesting to be put into special confinement facilities if possible.
Clearly it's very complicated, logically understandable but simultaneously objectionable, and most people have strong opinions on it one way or another, as life and it's unfairness and permanence has never been simple nor easy.
Loved Cresson, he was so pillowy and fresh, knew how to handle the jam, slippery as butter, and flakes off so many blockers making a mess of the defenses table-spread
Yeah, but then if there's legal ways to do it, then you can do more by doing it legal + illegal, resulting in a higher sum.
If they don't get paid until on-campus (which used to be illegal but now is legal), then you can pay a bit for the verbal commit, pay a bit for the visit (it's not like they don't already spend pretty for that, it's just now more direct, less proxy, and thus in some ways more honest and up-front), etc.
It might sound messy, but the truth is it was always messy, now at least the pretense is qualitatively different, so the quantitative part is a matter of degree as opposed to binarily off or on.
And then like that screenshot suggests, OSU's willing to overpay at this point, to stem the bleeding.
We demoralized their 5-Stars last year, and we demoralized their 5-Stars the year before that, we can do it again this year.
But the game will change after this year, when they go to the 8 or 12 (far too many, should be around 8 imo), the coaching and personnel will have to be far more dynamic and swiss-army knife-like gearing up for the expanded playoffs, as every game will prove less do-or-die than we are used to in CFB. So let OSU buy out their players for now because their DL coach seems to have lost touch with the game, all while Michigan does more with less and marches forward into whatever the hell wacky funhouse hellride CFB is going to turn into as we battle against classic Big Ten Conference Rivals such as....checks notes...UCLA and USC?!?!?
My favorite part about the southeast is how vehemently performatively "Republican" they are, all while taking in FAR more tax dollars in goverment handouts than they pay in taxes.
I'm not saying I don't want them to get the money, I hope they get the money, so I can tell them "how beautiful this little southern welfare state is!"
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The internet is all about Conspira-tainment.
Q-Anon was a preview.
In a way, the internet is like a big novel/TV-series/movie, but it's choose-your-own-adventure and has a "VR" quality to it, and the slow temporality (wherein a movie needs to wrap up in 90-180 minutes), helps slow-drip it all the way home.
We effectively all live inside of a video game, when using the internet.
Philosophers have struggled for millenia trying to grasp and understand our reality--from science to theology, to epistemology itself--and now, technology is plodding along and constructing a haphazard Disney-land edifice on top of it based on the simplest, most impulsive, most repetitive, lowest common denominator of behaviors and desires--we're in a new Tower of Babel.
One of my favorite philsopher's/theorist's said, "Disney-land's most powerful (and unintended) effect is that it actually obscures the fact that we already live in a Disney-land."
If the bulk of this stuff has any merit, then I'd have to assume that Jim Harbaugh has absolutely made almost every enemy outside of people who are at Michigan.
As more and more is revealed it sounds like everyone has a network of videos/spies on literally everyone and are basically passing everything around like it's an extended family potluck.
Yet the fact that the hammer would go so swiftly onto Jim + Michigan feels like he/we have made (or naturally acquired) A LOT of enemies over the years. Which actually sounds right considering Harbaugh has vocalized paying players since way before the NIL, has a metric ton of NFL connections (unlike any of the other HCs), could take an NFL job in a second, and has a brother who has been feeding him coordinators, etc. who have been lights out.
I hope we destroy Ohio this week.
Nothing could be a sweeter revenge to shut them and all the supposed "sports analysts" talking out of their ass.
It really is Michigan vs. Everybody.
ESPN already cleaned house a while ago because they are absolutely spilling blood in losing eyeball-hours and thus advertising bucks to the internet.
In turn they (and everyone) has had to resort to becoming hot-take merchants and spectacle peddlers.
We live in an arms race of over-mediation and stupidity, and it will end the same as the current abundance problems (opiod overdoses, obesity, consumerism, suicides, needless gun violence), oh wait, there's no end in site.
The only solution is to tune out (exceedingly difficult).
Hopefully there's no nationwide event that forces us inside our homes for years glued to our screens...oh wait....
It's the clicks/engagement-rate.
Nobody's clicking on this same event if it were Ole Miss or FSU, etc. so ESPN/etc. won't cover it like the daytime soap-opera coverage they did for this.
Just like when we beat OSU in 2021, it sparked Super-Bowl-level coverage of Michigan (the picturesque snow/Big House also helped the cinematics along) for far longer than deserved, it's because we drive clicks--and Michigan is a public-ivy thus has alum in power, higher-status, class, and income.
Retired NBA players on some youtube-video/podcast-thing (you'd never see this in mainstream media, it disempowers the theatre) were just talking about this a month or so ago, the execs, the owners, advertisers, etc. they want big-market teams in the Championship, the quote was something like, the refs were going to make it so "in order to beat them by 2 (points) on the scoreboard, we really have to beat them by 17 (points) in the game"
C.R.E.A.M.
Are we screwed?
Almost like there's performers (practitioners with experience), and then there's journalists (theorists with no skin in the game).
Hopefully this doesn't spread beyond just sports, and into politics and business!
I'm so burnt out on…
Same,
I'm so burnt out on this I don't even care any more.
This is why banks, lawyers, and governments always win, I'm just one person, I have so many other things to do in my life, and I don't have the mental energy to keep pouring into all this.
I waive the white flag.
NIL let other teams do what Bama clearly did as well as SEC, from a decade old expose, social media, open secret, and hell even Klatt alluded to it a week ago.
Same-year Transfer-elegibility also makes it so coaches weild no strong power over a players ability to leave and go get starter reps elsewhere.
That's actually very underrate, recall being 18-22 and seeing if you could make a decision that would pull you away from everything you love for possibly 2 years, zero chance you do so, especially if you're already getting payed a little bit of money.
Saban's clearly a great coach and a brilliant football mind, and knows how to build a program, but their juggernaut status was absolutely bolstered by a clear and certain competetive advantage.
there's simply way more money in being inflammatory than truthful or insightful today
thus is the medium. sorry internet dorks and news dorks, media and/or technology is simply not the way
i can't remember which sociologist is was but he showed the the strongest, most effective form of birth control (plummeting pregnancies/fertility) was actually: smartphone ownership/usage, above anything (e.g. birth control, condoms, education, etc.)--and clearly news isn't communicating any truth either, the population is clearly now schizophrenic.
we live in the age of the grifter, from politicians to celebrities to billionaires and apparently even universities/medicine
It's anti-Italian discrimination!
I actually like the cupcakes, it's also significantly how those little schools fund their program and even other sports as well.
It's always been fun to meet the new visitors from far off lands (that's underappreciated the US is huge/diverse) and witness different tailgaiters/traditions/aesthetics they bring to Ann Arbor every year.
Also, I dated a girl who went to a cupcake school and to be honest, gamedays which much more about the day/activities/socialization/comedically-hopeless/self-deprecating and FAR LESS heart-wrenching at least.
Plus you get to travel to the "big schools" to follow your team to many more different places and all in early Fall, the timing couldn't be anymore perfect.
It was a nice change of pace.
Equality and consistency is actually a terrible thing. Variety is the spice of life.
I'm sure someone in the field knows the specific metrics/numbers.
But, Michigan absolutely has one of the largest online-presences (we for sure have one of the largest living Alumni bases). I'm sure that has to do with the alum-base/size being in more white-collar jobs, vague-internet/tech-ey jobs, and being in higher managerial positions, etc. who will be more online in general, and have time/convenience to click around.
Not to mention Alum in some very high/influential/public positions in sports/business/marketing, etc.
The big ivies have this even moreso of course, but they don't have #2-ranked football teams, going to the CFP 2x consecutively, and looking good for a 3rd straight trip.
So covering UofM is always, always, always going to bring more clicks than all but a handful of universities, and if those few universities' teams are not #1 or #2, going to the CFP, etc. then you don't even have to make the ostensible "dark horse" argument to convince your boss/editor/reputation to get more clicks.
This is assuming good faith, which we know doesn't exist for a majority of the internet as-is, it's all clicks and whatever-bleeds-leads, so UofM will draw attention/stories in bad faith either way, so when they can get it in good faith it's no-holds-barred.
Like in 2021, when we beat OSU, the media was covering us for a week like we won the Superbowl. It was hard not to imagine all the alum strewn about ESPN, marketing departments, editors, high-rises in the New York, Boston, studio production-crew, etc not being influential in that coverage.
That's exactly my point, you show something over and over for long enough, again and again and again, and people will start to attribute qualities to something that never were there before in the first place.
It's why eye-witness testimony is notorious less and less reliable the more the person is interrogated.
Which kind of calls into question all 24-7 debate, dialogue, hardcore-politics-newscycle, and sportstalk, etc. via the internet as an inescapable self-straying from reality through re/mis-remembering ("Tower of Babel"--and many, many other mythopoetics touch on similar conundrums/fatal-flaws), but alas, the people must poast!!
Agreed, they'll have to run two-back sets (which I'm not opposed to, but isn't what we've been into lately) if they want to have Edwards in there reliably.
Motioning him in and out of the slot to see the defenses would be a great idea too, but not sure we're at that level of complexity.
Also, if it weren't for the 9/11-planestrike-level-video-replay-brainwashing of Edward's 2 TD Homeruns against OSU all year long, people would not assume Edwards was some sort of trucking RB.
He has always relied on getting away clean and fast. He's an elusive back, not a bulldozer.
Remember Corum & Edwards dubbed themselves "Lightning & Lightining", not "Thunder & Thunder".
That being said, I love what I'm seeing from Mullings. Love to see more.
Anytime 70, 80, or 90 Million, etc, is at stake, you better believe a lawyer/legal team is going to be involved.
People make these expenditures even to save face, as just acquiescing, from the outside, can look like an admission of guilt, which wouldn't look good to future employers (and no one can predict the future).
In general, life is very stupid!
I've been noticing a lot of out-of-town/state students' parents coming to the games this year--increasingly more than last year and the year before, just steadily upticking.
Could be something with making something exciting for them/their kids now that UM is consistently nationally relevant--never underestimate the influence of parents and their $$$ for branding/reputation/etc.
Avoiding being a homer and trying to forget the years of painful mediocrity (and a 3-9 season, oof), it's easy to forget how electric a player like Denard Robinson was with his feet.
His sheer acceleration + deceleration, cutting ability (which would tear any other players ACLs & High Ankle ligaments if they attempted), top-speed, and vision were, to this day, arguably the most spectacular feats of running athleticism ever seen on a football field.
Sadly his QB skills (almost as many INTs as Throwing-TDs) were not in the same galaxy as his running skills, nor was his build/body-type, really anything like a running-back's would be.
He was a unicorn, fun to watch, and unanimously a very kind human being from everyone who met him.
Because the internet is far more of an anger-machine (and the news a fear-machine), more than it is an information-machine.
Libraries are right there. Yet people choose not to use them (except to rent movies apparently, lmao)
U of M will simply not let anyone transfer more than 2 years worth of credits towards their Michigan degree from any outside institution (and limits how many outside credits can go towards your declared major), and won't necessarily honor any credits toward the "Major" unless they can directly identify the coursework/requirements via that college's syllabus requirements which must correlate "enough" with what UofM would have had you do in their own coursework.
So the declared major you graduate with on your degree, "Bachelor's of _______ in ________" nearly always requires 2 full semesters of coursework plus another 2 semesters of Michigan's undergraduate degree requirements (a mix of languages, math/statistics, social studies, and arts), which equals 2 years of classes (4 semester, with Spring/Summers off, unless you're that driven)
This is not an athlete-specific thing, all transferring students are subject to this with zero exception.
The idealistic arguent is that UofM will simply not let people attend here for 1 year and then "graduate with a Michigan degree" (many colleges will allow this, EMU for example). And to maintain higher standards to maintain their reputation for their graduates (which is still quite good when you go to apply for jobs)
The cynical argument is "they want more of your $$$, and wring you for everything they can get."
The truth is a mix of both.
Keon Sabb didn't play amazing football yesterday?
The internet as a whole is a content machine which relies on capturing as much of your time and attention as possible (the metric advertisers pay for).
The most salient emotions are anger and fear (needed most for survival--historically but not in the age of abundance), so if they can't scare you (news), they'll piss you off (media).
There's not been a single white collar job I haven't spied on where a large amount of time I saw them just dicking around on the internet, and if podcasts/advertisements are any indicator, I'd say a fair amount of blue collar jobs are plugged in all day too (when they can, due to safety reasons)
Some of the best minds of their generation (and some mediocre minds as well) have been heading over to silicon valley for the last 30 years to more or less figure out how to make these products more addictive--or how to distribute it more efficiently (and famously, none of them allowed their children to use any of it), some of the brightest people during my time at UM all headed over to work for those companies, some stayed, some only did a few years (Space X sounds like a nightmare), but all helped push the ball forward.
At least with evolution you are rate-limited, dealing with time-scales, incredible complexity, and competing organisms which balance nature and its organisms quite eleganty (the opposite of this we call "Cancer"), but these computer systems are operating in a totally abstract (literally away from the ground, place-less) and are able to hone in on our neurology like nothing we'd every encounter in nature (go look at the physical size of a lethal dose of fentanyl, it's the amount of crumbs on your face at all times lol)
This is all to say, be careful with this machine. Everyone is scared of the nuclear bomb blowing up the world, but the silicon semiconductor has already done so.
Lmao, you're literally citing how Jordan is transparent about him being brand whereas LeBron is quite literally not transparent about him being a brand, "more than an athlete", sure dude.
If this was already known, then why is it news, and why is it posted here as if it was news?
This is a genuine question. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding the usage of "known"?
His brand is worth billions of dollars, his career-path, management, "character", was already being planned when he was 16, (the "hero's journey", refusal of the call, threshold, mentors, tests, return home, new life, etc.--literally all films, marketing, politicians, public figure use this, it may even be ingrained in us like language, parenthood, seeking of wisdom, etc. but I digress)
He's more like a politician or large corporation with his "interactions", it's all PR-speak.
Like many people who instinctively dislike politicans/marketers because they are not being honest in any way, nor authentic human beings, and just toting talking-points (and the converse people love politicans for their "authenticity/humanity/etc.---correctly-perceived-or-not), a lot of people are suspicious of him because frankly he isn't authentic, he speaks like an HR-dept. because that best protects the brand.
Also a lot of his things are put-ups, he never actually read any of those books he claimed he did, and when asked what he liked, he basically couldn't speak on a single thing that was in that book (lol).
For example, Jordan may be an harsh perfectionist and unrealistically expect that of everyone around him to the point of unhappiness, but he also wouldn't sit there and pretend otherwise; James is a put up, no question.
Watching a game with recruit(s) and having UM-social media cover it would be hilarious.
All my Blizzard Treats, Sundaes, and Dilly Bars, shall be un-taxable, and neither shall my inheritance be fiancially assessed when I pass down the Ice-Creamdom to my dairy-blooded successors.
Now, now, I'll be the judge of that.
Lol, at least the vaccine debates have data (albeit horrible data on any side). UFO's have no tangible hard evidence anywhere.
The UFO's always peaks most whenever the country is at War, Economically Collapsing, and/or the Public Sentiment trust/supsicion of the Government is particularly terrible (thus conspiratorial accusations begin--which, to be fair, all governments of course do, it's more a matter of, "to what end", and, "conspiring" is technically just having a closed meeting to plan something).
And yes, if they can get you pay attention to the spectacle, then it has fully accomplished it's job as a complete distraction. Just like how "racism" "white privilege" and all sorts of other buzzwords entered newsmedia's vocabulary right around the time of this thing called Occupy Wall Street which wanted to tax the wealthy/corporations, and took the country by storm (Gore Vidal: "The 'A' in 'USA' stands for "Amnesia").
When governments are captured by corporations, the citizens will respond with all sorts of distrust, suspicion, and civil unrest (sound familiar?), and will come up with all sorts of accusations/beliefs, some of which are spot-on (economy, housing, jobs), some of which are pretty wild and outrageous (UFO's, Russians, Chinese, etc.). Their emotions are definitely justified--something is wrong--but their rationalizations as to what exactly, however, are not necessarily accurate.
Sorry…
"NYT did a deep dive"
Sorry I'm more interested in public health statisticians than "The New York Times" and their "deep dive" (the regurgitation of marketing buzzwords are such an immediate indicator cluelessness).
You've got shit for brains bro, and it's a moral imperative to call out bullshitters when you see them.
Incredible idiocy on display here.
The amount of ingnorance you spew takes exponentially effort to address than it took you to vomit out.
Like Einstein said about the only two things that are infinite, for you, there's no hope.
Good luck and please solely follow your own advice while refraining from giving it out to others.
but I'm also not dying to have that conversation.
*proceeds to write paragraphs*
You write so much yet say so little.
You project things I never said, and then attack them as if they were posited, Don Quixote, except he was funny.
You've made so many conjectures it would be a waste of my own time to respond. You're dull and lack the ability to think critically, which you conflate with writing deluge.
This is drivel. Learn to re-read what you write. It will help your thinking, because clearly it needs help.
I could pull more quotes but starting with the basics is more important.
My guy, you just cited a study who's entire dataset only goes until January 3rd, 2021.
For reference this "study" only includes data from when Trump was still the president. To cite it now is not just misinformation but disinformation.
I think we'll just have to agree to disagree. By all means take more covid vaccines if you desire, it's your medical choice. But I'd ask that you refrain from making statements about vaccine procedures and pandemic response with extremely poorly dated references and information, seeing as we are still in the very middle of pandemic outcomes. I wouldn't have replied otherwise.
"All of Europe" = Finland, Norway, etc. those are the gold-standard in comparables.
Your reply to in regards to Sweden is erroneous and non-sequitor. They are not comparable to the US in any way. They are comparable to Finland and Norway. They paused vaccine for Under-30, full-stop.
"largest and most thoroughly scrutinized trials of any history [sic]"
This is the way one argues for legality of best practices, not veracity of truth.
There's signal and there's noise.
I like what Sweden did better.
Fossil records show humans became physically shorter, smaller, weaker, and had much poorer dental health as agriculture practices began (just ask your local physical Anthropologist!). The purported upside was an increase in population which led larger numbers of people who could then violently exterminate/conquer the physically bigger, taller, healthier, but less numerous hunter-gatherers.
And yes, we've been selecting for crops for thousands of years, and in the short-run GMO's have provided, again, a sort of proliferation, but long-term, we do not know what the effects will be.
Our human selection-process and hybridization has a much softer-GMO impact, like dog-breeding, whereas GMOs (which should really be called Genetic Engineering & GEO's: Genetically Engineered Organism--branding/propaganda is a very important tool in advertising and compliance), is a stronger-GMO, because it deals with genetically engineering DNA by replacing certain genes with foreign DNA itself.
There's no doubt that that type of engineering is far riskier than Natural Selection as it massively shortcuts all sort of steps in a Billions-of-years-old complex system (IVF, C-section, are also great examples of bypassing complex systems that some find disagreeable, in favor of words, desires, and ideas, which both demonstrably have poorer health outcomes than natural conception).
It is incorrect to equate them.
Sweden paused vaccines for anyone Under-30 back in 2021, within 3 months of vaccines they saw a trend. They also have the lowest excess deaths in every age bracket, in all of europe from 2020-2023.
Even the U.S. paused Johnson & Johnson's vaccine for females, then didn't recommend it for females, and then it was removed completely from use on humans.
All the big pharma companies (Pfizer, J&J, Purdue, Astrazeneca, Galaxo, Eli Lilly, Merck, Novartis--Moderna = no only becayse they've never MADE anything before), are all currently at this time paying the largest fines in US history, 10's of Billions of dollars in fines, for: falsifying research data, kickbacks to physicians, making false a misleading claims, monopilization, and off-label promotion (and that is what they were successfully CONVICTED of in our very pro-corporate legal system, they were ACCUSED of much more, but settled).
To paraphrase, their quote was, "When you get caught speeding on your way to Billions of dollars, you're happy to pay the ticket and go on your way."
The corona virus vaccines have been the most profitable medical product in history.
Clearly to make any judgements about James' son's cardiac event is not possible without access to their medical records.
However, general skepticism and distrust in 2023, is absolutley warranted, the corruption and consolidation of power around the globe we're currently experiencing has never been seen before in human history and isn't even comprehensible to our everyday senses.
C'mon man, don't be silly, it's everywhere.
The lawyer simply has an in and there could be 100s of millions of dollars in this case. It's just like when there's misconduct by a teacher or an officer, or any other organization backed by potentially limitless money, I'm positive in those cases the legal firm could give a shit about "the school children" or "excessive force".
Have we all forgotten why pharma, oil conglomerates, food industries, auto industries, airline industries, big tech industries, etc. etc. all have total monopolistic control? It's because of the legal system and how lucrative it is--your doctor's medical advice is STRICTLY based off of what they can and cannot be sued for. That's it.
I'm not trying to be cynical but let's not be naive to the way the world works. It's certainly less physcially barbaric than chopping eachothers heads off, public hangings, torture, and mutilating wars, but people today aren't any less good or bad than they are today, there's just more standards for the physically painful things (but notice the mentally painful things have yet to be addressed in any serious way).
When there's blood in the water, the sharks gather (which I'm told is actually an overstatement when it comes to actual sharks, so comparing them to lawyers is doing a disservice to the damn shark).
EDIT: Also I'm not in anyway condoning or hand-waving, it is a practice that should be stopped, but to think it's unique to Northwestern, or football, is willfully blind.
Yes I would like to see both on the field simultaneously, also Edwards can motion or lineup in the slot, plenty of possibilities to say the least.
Corum ran routes a ton out of the backfield in 2021 w/Cade, he's a fine receiver.
Would like to see some Jedd Fisch-like creative playcalling this year!
It seems like it's a real problem, real damages were done, and real atonement and remediation needs to take place.
But not for one second do I believe this private law firm is acting in any good faith towards that, only that Northwestern has huge pockets, an elite academic institution that's going to get reemed for cash because of something a football coach did or allowed that doesn't have a single thing to do with academics or higher learning, nor do even university presidents, deans, etc really even come from academia, in any true way, any more--which sounds insane to actually say but is true (like saying a restaurant chef doesn't really come from the kitchen lol). So it makes sense why they are constantly caught suppressing and legalizing their way out, like modern CEOs they'll golden parachute out and then just find a new place to go to.
We live in the age of the grift, and it's one of the biggest reasons no one wants to work, has retired early, and are retreating into a form of paranoia, solipsism, and choose-your-own-reality mindset.
I feel like the Nebraska game in 2021 was pretty wild and very important, maybe it was the strip sack to end it, or one of Haskins's runs, but that was a rare shootout (for 2021) which it felt very crucial to win both for Harbaugh and for the team's confidence after stomping Wisky and going on the road for the 2nd week in a row against maybe one of the best 3-9 (lol) CFB teams ever.
Maybe I'm a fool, but that felt like a great boxing match including a very feisty Adrian Martinez, and we ulitmately won by going for the KO, not because he beat himself. It felt like a great win.
Agree there's definitely way more to the story, and he's factually misrepresented at least one thing.
For one he claims "they took away my scholarship", which is diametrically opposite, that paper he signed was precisely so he would be guaranteed his degree for free at Michigan regardless of anything.
I probably should look it up, but I believe he had the same hamstring injury history in high school.
I'm not trying to absolve UM at all in this, at least potentially, but Team doc's, trainers, coaches, staff, and the player themselves all collaborate in the process. If the docs thought the injuries look severe under imaging, and their manual testing seems to confirm, but the player wants "full go" and/or the opposite, if the imaging looks fine and the manual testing seems to confirm it's fine too, but the player refuses to "go", or wants to "do it their own way", etc. that can very quickly lead to a lot of friction.
Now if he indeed strained his hamstring "6 times", then you have 6 (or more) huddling of the docs/staff/player which would obviously compound any sort of friction.
The fact that he said his dad came in and "snapped" and "snapped crazy", etc. sounds like there were many differing channels of communication going and certainly points to strong disagreement and conflict.
And seeing as he "went to indiana" to get cleared by a non-team doctor, only further sounds like there was a full disagreement, and also a sort of weird perception of "authority", as if UMich's medical team of docs/surgeons/trainers are all going to fall over a private visit to a team doctor in Indiana (I think I might even know which doc lol).
But yes, we'll never know the full story, precisely because UM has zero benefit to comment, and have their own internal system and policies, and you know, are doing pretty good at both football and medicine (and a few other things probably) at this point in time.
Only an actual journalist would abuse a headline like that...
Who do you work for?
I only said it to trick you so you could be even more surprised and happy.
Merry Christmas!?
We definitely looked past TCU.
Georgia is likely the most talented in college football, but OSU's roster is as talented as anyone in the country.
Based on our TCU game (which the country watched, sure we look like we would have gotten smacked by UGA), but a) the law of transferrence doesn't apply to football (just psychotherapy/medicine) and b) I think our coaches put together a gameplan that gives us a puncher's chance, especially with JJ, as it was the first game put on his shoulders after Corum goes down.
OSU had the best offense in the country, Stroud was the #2 overall NFL Draft pick, and OSU had what 3? 4? future 1st-Round wide-receivers on their roster?
Georgia was so talented sure, but OSU was up 11pts (and driving to another TD were it not for a timeout-interrupted converted 4th down puntfake that was/would have been converted—the timeout was late imo) with 8 minutes left in the 4th quarter.
Georgia could have easily lost, and we could have easily won, resulting in a rematch against OSU. But could we have beat Georgia last year, absolutely, they were very good, but they weren't gods.
All the fans have PTSD from '21, but the '22 team wasn't nearly as dominant defensively. And JJ has proved that he can gunsling against anyone (~50pts), he just needs to watch it with the pick-6's and we need deeper talent at RB and a little more in-game run adjustment.
It was a surprisingly disappointing end to a great season, but the team was improved from the year before, and looks like it will be even better this year.
A very large percentage of males in prison were themselves molested/sexually assaulted as children and adolescents, often very violently (it can be psychologically and developmentally devastating, obvious but often overlooked)
This is one of the many reasons imprisoned child molesters/pedophiles are attacked and regularly killed in prison—often requesting to be put into special confinement facilities if possible.
Clearly it's very complicated, logically understandable but simultaneously objectionable, and most people have strong opinions on it one way or another, as life and it's unfairness and permanence has never been simple nor easy.
Loved Cresson, he was so pillowy and fresh, knew how to handle the jam, slippery as butter, and flakes off so many blockers making a mess of the defenses table-spread
Yeah, but then if there's legal ways to do it, then you can do more by doing it legal + illegal, resulting in a higher sum.
If they don't get paid until on-campus (which used to be illegal but now is legal), then you can pay a bit for the verbal commit, pay a bit for the visit (it's not like they don't already spend pretty for that, it's just now more direct, less proxy, and thus in some ways more honest and up-front), etc.
It might sound messy, but the truth is it was always messy, now at least the pretense is qualitatively different, so the quantitative part is a matter of degree as opposed to binarily off or on.
And then like that screenshot suggests, OSU's willing to overpay at this point, to stem the bleeding.
We demoralized their 5-Stars last year, and we demoralized their 5-Stars the year before that, we can do it again this year.
But the game will change after this year, when they go to the 8 or 12 (far too many, should be around 8 imo), the coaching and personnel will have to be far more dynamic and swiss-army knife-like gearing up for the expanded playoffs, as every game will prove less do-or-die than we are used to in CFB. So let OSU buy out their players for now because their DL coach seems to have lost touch with the game, all while Michigan does more with less and marches forward into whatever the hell wacky funhouse hellride CFB is going to turn into as we battle against classic Big Ten Conference Rivals such as....checks notes...UCLA and USC?!?!?
We are literally physiologically programming society to be solely dopamine surges and emotional rushes.
This is never popular to say online because it is the belly of the beast itself, but it's true.
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People are downvoting but:
-Seinfeld
-Southpark
-The Office
-30 Rock
Have all had episodes pulled from syndication and blacklisted within the last 3 years.
Somes of the creators themselves have said they "don't know" if the show could be made today.
My favorite part about the southeast is how vehemently performatively "Republican" they are, all while taking in FAR more tax dollars in goverment handouts than they pay in taxes.
I'm not saying I don't want them to get the money, I hope they get the money, so I can tell them "how beautiful this little southern welfare state is!"