@DarrylConrad Poles is just Ben Johnson’s scout at this point
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@BearsAreBack25
Chicago Bears fan
Chicago, IL Beigetreten Aralık 2025
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Bears Draft Grade So Far
A
Why?
Because it is now beyond obvious that Ben Johnson runs this team. Poles reign of terror is beyond over.
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@WiltonHill4 @DhruvKoul I meant to type “it’s not like he’s our 3rd string” but must have auto corrected. Dillion is definitely starting alongside Coby 🤝
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I tend to agree generally. But this is the Colston Loveland theory manifesting again.
The best or second-best safety in this class vs a significantly diminished pool of relative talent at the other spots.
StartKyleOrton@startkyIeorton
To be clear: like Thieneman just fine, he's gonna be good in this system. Just questions about roster construction and resource management. It's fine, i'm not mad, don't yell at me plz.
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@TheBearsShow @sheanorling Plus the fact we needed a safety badly too. Not like we just signed some random bench player to a position we don’t need
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@sheanorling So you take the 5th or 6th best edge in a bad class over the 2nd best safety who a lot of people had in the top 15?
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will add, i think i’m more likely to talk myself out of liking this than anything else.
two major investments at safety in a single offseason when you’re bottom-3 consistently in pressure rate just feels like bad process.
shea@sheanorling
thieneman did not make the final cut for Shea Guys™️ 2026, in large part bc i wasn’t sure he’d be available at 25. hard pick to hate, but i have no clue how they pressure passers.
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@ConnerBean I’d normally agree with this take, but a sub 2.5% rate is just dumb to pay off
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Paying off mortgages early is one of those things where I respect and acknowledge the math, but the math doesn't take into account the psychological benefits of not owing money to anybody and owning your house outright
The Money Cruncher, CPA@money_cruncher
My coworker has a 1.99% mortgage. That is something you should NEVER pay off early. Inflation is at least 3%/yr. Why would anyone pay that off aggressively? It makes absolutely 0 sense.
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@arnojeddy @jacobinfante24 @AdamSchefter You must be new to NFL twitter because every teams fanbase does this exact thing when a player becomes available at a position they need
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ESPN sources: Giants All-Pro defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence has requested a trade and he will not be participating in the team’s off-season workout program that opens Tuesday.
Lawrence and the Giants have been through two off seasons attempting to negotiate a contract reflecting his value to the Giants over the last three years, but there has not been any progress, per sources.
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The math is very simple and you’re gonna lose this argument every time.
1981 household income Mean: £8,500/yr
1981 house cost mean: £23,700/yr
1981 had a 2.8x household income to house cost
2025 household income Mean: £70,200
2025 house cost mean: £272,800
2025 had a 3.9x
Households need a 40% income raise to get vac to the buying power that you had in 1981.
In the first 10 years of home ownership, your house TRIPLED in value and you were able to refinance into a ~7% loan.
After that, it took 25 years to triple in value again and you had multiple opportunities to refinance your now expensive house, into a 3% rate, taking cash out cheap and using it to buy more assets if desired.
You were born at a golden time from a housing market perspective. Just because you had to rent your TV doesn’t mean that you didn’t also get to enjoy one of the best housing market rides any generation has ever had.
Get today’s affordability down to th 2.8x that you had, and then you can start arguing about rates and other hardships. But for now, the very simple math shows that affordability is at least 40% worse than it was in 1981
Jen k 🇬🇧🏴@Jenny_1884
When I married in 1981 we both worked & most of our salary went on paying the mortgage as the interest rate was 15% at the time. Everything we owned was 2nd hand & we never went out for meals as we couldn’t afford to. We rented our TV Went to the launderette every weekend as had no washing machine. Only had new clothes at Xmas & birthdays as presents. We went without until we could save enough to pay for something. It’s always been hard whether you are young or old. So those out there that think we had it easy we didn’t. Our governments are to blame, not the old.
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@OGSAWB @MarioNawfal Agreed. The only way to notice it, is to discuss something with it that you are very well versed on.
For children or less educated people using it as their primary source of research on something, it is a major concern
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@MarioNawfal I’ve played around with it.
The subtle gaslighting is very real and is absolutely dangerous if one is not self-aware.
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🚨MIT researchers have mathematically proven that ChatGPT’s built-in sycophancy creates a phenomenon they call “delusional spiraling.”
You ask it something, it agrees. You ask again, and it agrees even harder until you end up believing things that are flat-out false and you can’t tell it’s happening.
The model is literally trained on human feedback that rewards agreement.
Real-world fallout includes one man who spent 300 hours convinced he invented a world-changing math formula, and a UCSF psychiatrist who hospitalized 12 patients for chatbot-linked psychosis in a single year.
Source: @heynavtoor
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🚨 Stanford just proved that a single conversation with ChatGPT can change your political beliefs. 76,977 people. 19 AI models. 707 political issues. One conversation with GPT-4o moved political opinions by 12 percentage points on average. Among people who actively disagreed, 26 points. In 9 minutes. With 40% of that change still present a month later. The scariest finding: the most persuasive technique wasn't psychological profiling or emotional manipulation. It was just information. Lots of it. Delivered with confidence. Here's the catch: the models that deployed the most information were also the least accurate. More persuasive. More wrong. Every time. Then they built a tiny open-source model on a laptop, trained specifically for political persuasion. It matched GPT-4o's persuasive power entirely. Anyone can build this. Any government. Any corporation. Any extremist group with $500 and an agenda. The information didn't have to be true. It just had to be overwhelming. Arxiv, Science .org, Stanford, @elonmusk, @ihtesham2005
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@BeyondtheNoiz @Jhonffonseca Meanwhile everything reporters in the media write about Pete comes off as better, smarter and insulting towards him. He acts the same way towards them and now he’s the bad guy?
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@Jhonffonseca Answer questions without trying to sound better, smarter or insulting. It’s a horrible way to communicate and ineffective to get a message across if you’re continually shutting and putting people down.
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REPORTERO: ¿Por qué se enviarían más tropas estadounidenses a la región si no se está considerando el despliegue de tropas terrestres en Irán?
SECWAR PETE HEGSETH:
“Mira, hijo… esta es una lección militar tan básica que hasta un reportero debería entenderla:
Nunca le reveles a tu enemigo lo que sí vas a hacer… ni lo que no vas a hacer.
Y mucho menos le dices cuándo piensas rendirte.
Especialmente a un cobarde que se esconde en búnkeres, guarda sus misiles como un avaro y reza para que Estados Unidos se canse y se vaya a casa.
Pero déjame darte un consejo gratis: la próxima vez que quieras hacer una pregunta, intenta no sonar como si estuvieras haciendo lobby por el régimen iraní. Da muy mala imagen.”
Jhonf Fonseca@Jhonffonseca
URGENTE: ES OFICIAL Y CLARO: Estados Unidos está tomando el control y desestabilizando el régimen iraní. El presidente Trump no se anda con rodeos ni debilidades: NUNCA descartaría el envío de tropas americanas. Porque el que avisa, pierde. Publicitar tus límites solo beneficia al enemigo. Escuchen sus palabras fuertes y directas: “Tropas sobre el terreno… no vamos a descartar ninguna opción. No se puede luchar y GANAR una guerra si le dices a tu adversario exactamente lo que estás dispuesto a hacer o lo que NO estás dispuesto a hacer… ¡incluyendo tropas sobre el terreno!” “Nuestro adversario ahora mismo piensa que hay 15 maneras diferentes en las que podríamos atacarlos con tropas terrestres… ¿Y saben qué? Sí existen. Así que, si fuera necesario, podríamos poner en práctica esas opciones en nombre del presidente, de Estados Unidos y de este departamento.” “O tal vez no tengamos que usarlas en absoluto… porque el solo hecho de saber que podemos ya cambia todo.”
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@officeofmoorr @Thedrivenman Just take the L dude, either say there’s not enough context or don’t say anything. You can’t just blindly defend one side while claiming no context
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@pollypocketmode Neighbor is looking for a pay day or crazy
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Wow I really didn't think he was going to be THIS vindicated
TMZ@TMZ
😳 "Reacher" star Alan Ritchson's body cam footage of his bloody fight with his neighbor is released.
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@UziCryptoo He did what you are saying you would do now? 😂🤡
70 years from now you’re great great grandchild would be sayin “wow that idiot sold our entire family land for $5 Million, if he didn’t we could be chilling”
Either never sell or don’t complain that he did
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@Ally_Sammarco Homes are overpriced. If the Fed lowers rates, there will be so many buyers that home prices will just go up further, making affordability just as bad as it was before the rates were cut…
Only solution that actually helps FIRST TIME homebuyers, is for home prices to come down
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How is anyone supposed to buy a home at this point
Kalshi@Kalshi
BREAKING: 62% chance of Fed rate "hike" in 2027
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@heyyitsjanea I make more than that and still drive a piece of shit 2005 truck
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@HalasHooligan This entire offseason so far Pole and Co. have shown they have no interest in giving up future picks to make big splashes. Theres no way they would give up even half of what you are offering for that pick
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@BearsAreBack25 Bear get the #3 overall pick.🤷🏽♂️
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Bears receive: Cardinals’ 2026 1st-round pick (No. 3 overall)
Cardinals receive:
• Bears’ 2026 1st-round pick (No. 25)
• Bears’ 2026 2nd-round pick (No. 57)
• Bears’ 2027 1st-round pick (TBD)
• Bears’ 2026 3rd-round pick (No. 89)
• Tyson Bagent (QB)
GIF
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@DarrylConrad @RossRead This is high school shit. Trying to show off for friends
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@RossRead Doing shoulder stability work, which is huge for football players, with 40s is stupid.
This is performative gym shit… and makes you look less serious.
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Just because you can lift half the gym doesn’t mean you always should. This is so incredibly stupid on multiple levels.
Adam Breneman@AdamBreneman81
Texas Tech took every weight under 40 lbs out of their weight room. Love this!! No shortcuts. @NextUpBreneman x @USAT
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@impetro9 You must not mind crazy people showing up at your house and threatening your families lives
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