@SaintsForecast @J_TheJuice Betting on exceptions is fine. Trey Hendrickson's arms were so short people started calling him T Rex before the draft and he turned out fine. You just don't reach on exceptions at #8 overall.
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@J_TheJuice I’m betting on what the history of data tells me. Betting on exceptions repeatedly is bad process.
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Again do we watch the tape or just combine numbers?
Ralph Malbrough 🥃@SaintsForecast
Bain to be me is very likely to be Willie Whitehead. Remember him? Cool player. 22.5 sacks first 5 years with Saints. Great rotation guy. You can not pick that at 8. I’d rather let another team make that gamble on historic outlier
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@SaintsForecast Mansoor is more of a need with Stutsman and Bain in house but Styles is such a rare athlete you take him if he's there at 8 (he won't be)
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It’s cool. I’d be very curious if Saints went Delane>Styles
Check the Mic with Steve Palazzolo & Sam Monson@CTM_Show
Today on the show, Sam Monson drops his first solo mock draft of the year, making every pick as if he were calling the shots 👀
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@SaintsForecast This year is his age 29 season and he's coming off a down year. DT's who make their $$$ using first step explosion to get into the backfield age like RB's so even if he bounces back you only have a couple of quality years left and he won't get on a plane without a new deal
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I’m still not sure that’s enough for Lawrence. His market could be very strong
Caleb Yaccarino@CalebYac
Bain, Lawrence, Young, and Granderson
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@TiffanyFong The less you drink the more you notice that it feels like you lost a fight to a guy with a baseball bat every time you drink
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@RationalMale "Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen." Truer words have never been spoken.
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Hypergamy doesn’t care about national allegiances.
Berlin 🚩@Toxicity_______
While French men were dying on the front lines, their women were fraternizing with the German soldiers who had invaded their country. These women faced brutal public humiliation when france was liberated in 1944, their heads were shaved, and they were paraded through the streets, turned into symbols of revenge in a nation struggling to heal from occupation.
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@AsianDawn4 iirc In Democracy in America de Tocqueville noted that Indians struggled as farmers or business owners because they lacked intimate knowledge of how markets worked. They were locked out of that information and failed to thrive as a result
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🚗Whites and Asians have certain forms of "information." That's why there are no black-owned car companies because they were "locked out of that information" 😂😭😭
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@BradRTorgersen I feel like admitting you are a hard core Robotech fan is basically an admission you have deep seated issues that are probably beyond repair. Americans were not ready for that show
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Five television shows that explain me:
1) Star Trek TNG
2) Star Trek DS9
3) WKRP in Cincinnati
4) Connections w/ James Burke
5) Robotech
Rusty@LieutenantRusty
Five shows to get to know me: 1. Psych 2. Community 3. 30 Rock 4. Star Trek (TOS) 5. Frasier
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@wheyh This story is a great reminder that the purpose of etiquette is to show respect and care for others
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In 1975, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II visited Japan. At that time, the Japanese side had one problem: what shoes should the Queen wear in the Japanese-style room (a tatami-floored room) in the Japanese-style annex of the State Guest House? After much deliberation, the Japanese side prepared "special slippers." It must be said here that wearing slippers in a Japanese-style room is considered a breach of etiquette. It was a compromise for the Japanese side. On the day of the visit, Her Majesty noticed that no one else was wearing slippers while viewing the ikebana (flower arrangement). Her Majesty then removed her shoes and continued to admire the ikebana. When I learned of this later, I thought, "That's truly befitting of the Queen of the UK Commonwealth!"This may seem like a trivial matter. However, there is at least one Japanese person who holds Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth in high esteem because of this. I want the British people to know this.
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@JosephBottum Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy, LA Confidential, Remains of the Day, Empire of the Sun, multiple versions of Heart of Darkness and multiple Elmore Leonard's
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There has never been a truly great movie made from a truly great novel.
John Podhoretz@jpodhoretz
There is only one answer here that matters: The Godfather. The greatest work of the cinema, period, but made from a fun pulpy novel.
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@DaddyWarpig It took years after the term yacht rock came out before I realized it was supposed to be an insult. In my defense listening to Steely Dan or Little River Band cruising the bay on a plush yacht sipping drinks with my babe still sounds like a great idea to me
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There are people out there who don't understand why men work insanely hard to become rich just so they can buy big yachts.
"What good is a big yacht," they demand.
I think they lack vision.
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@AllbrightNFL @HighScore__ @44nc_ Meanwhile here in reality the findings were that Russian troll farms worked both sides of the aisle trying to create a toxic environment and neither campaign benefited and yet years later retards are still falling for "Russians worked for Trump" meme
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I’m assuming you haven’t actually read anything on the Russia situation they found no direct evidence that the campaign directly worked with Russ Russia plenty of evidence that Russia was actively working to support the Trump campaign
You should really do yourself a favor and not speak on things that you very clearly have not even slightly looked at
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Bro save college sports and people are mad😭
Underdog@Underdog
President Donald Trump's executive order regulating college sports: - College athletes can only play a maximum of 5 seasons in a 5-year window - Maximum of one transfer before graduation, otherwise, need to sit a full season - Schools that violate risk losing federal funding
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@cdrsalamander Jews took over the Ivies, staged ethnic cleansing campaigns against white males going back to the 80's, installed aggressive DEI to cover the crime, then fled when their brown "allies" turned against them. They will slowly but inevitably ruin the "dixie ivies" as well
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Dixie Ivies > Yankee Ivies, and as a plus, do not sanction Jew Hate. Though some on this list can do better in this regard on the extreme margins.
In case you’re wondering what a Dixie Ivy is:
- Duke
- Vanderbilt
- Emory
- Tulane
- UVA
- Rice
- SMU
- Wake Forest
- William & Mary
Honorable mentions would have to include large public institutions like UNC-CH and UF as a start.
From Sewanee, Rollins, Stetson, Furman, Davidson etc, there are a slew of exceptional small/medium sized colleges that are safe, welcoming, and have a healthier social environment.
Daniel Friedman@DanFriedman81
All the Jews who have been driven out of places like Columbia have been going to places like Vanderbilt. As universities like Columbia have changed their values over the last 15 years, their student quality has declined. Hopefully institutional reputations will catch up.
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@Communism_Kills To put in context how old "21 years ago today" really is when that song was released Purple Rain and Born in the USA were 21 years old
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I didn't need to read this today.
State of the Scene@SOTSPodcast
Fall Out Boy released Sugar, We're Going Down on this day 21 years ago.
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@SamMonsonNFL @ikenyonFB All the drills are heavily modified by training. You can even see scores averages shifting over time as first the 40 got specialized training, then one by one other drills got training as players tried to differentiate themselves by picking low hanging fruit and people followed
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@ikenyonFB Yeah, all of the IPP guys look like they have awful 3-cone times, including one of them who looked perfectly fluid moving, so i'm guessing that's the most rep-needed drill and they just don't have them.
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This is the most straight-ahead, linear, explosive athlete of all time.
An 8-second 3-cone??
Wonder how much of that is just being new to the testing.
RAS.football@MathBomb
Uar Bernard is a DT prospect in the 2026 draft class. He scored a 9.90 RAS out of a possible 10.00. This ranked 23 out of 2270 DT from 1987 to 2026. ras.football/ras-informatio…
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@Matthew_Gaskin @CBsBReference @Tiger__Vibes As bad as Simmons flame out was he was a 3X all star, 2X 1st team all defense and made an all nba team. Nowhere close to Kwame Brown, Greg Oden, Anthony Bennett, Markelle Fultz and Deandre Ayton territory
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@CBsBReference @Tiger__Vibes 2 of those LSU picks are the biggest flops in their sport.
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@chirno_helmet Metric is a garbage system based on arbitrary amounts forced into being easily counted by 10's but lacking any tether to real world conditions. Everyone should ditch it and either use our British based system or return to their prior model
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@DrewPavlou Is the argument here that Americans haven't heard of James Clavell or that Americans aren't aware Clavell is from Sydney?
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I like Rabindranath Tagore, I think he’s a great guy, but Americans obviously have more familiarity with Margot Robbie than Rabindranath Tagore
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I am pretty sure the average American knows more about Margot Robbie than Rabindranath Tagore
Canderous Ordoliberal 🫥@butleriano
India is more of a core Anglophone society than Australia tbh. Average university educated Briton or North American could not tell you the name of a single Australian writer but they could tell you about Kipling, Rushdie and maybe Tagore.
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@atriskute @RealTrouble_Man @MollyDavis543 They probably didn't have a choice. The armor had outrun their supply and their infantry were tied in knots far behind the lines trying to play catch up
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@RealTrouble_Man @MollyDavis543 Wehrmacht should have never halted at Dunkirk.
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"Had Britain not declared war, Hitler would have attacked an unprepared Stalin in 1940. The result might well have been the liberation of the Gulag & its 12 million souls, the eradication of Bolshevism in Russia & China, no Cold War, no Korea, & no Vietnam."
- Pat Buchanan
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@ChazzonKe @SecWar 3/4 of a million LEO carry as part of their job. Is there some massive negligent discharge issue being covered up there, because if not I'm thinking fears military are incapable of safely handling a holstered sidearm may be a bit overblown
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The sheer amount of negligent discharges that will inevitably follow is gonna be wild. There is no legitimate reasons non-mp's to carry service rifle/pistol when not within a combat zone or conducting training. Accountability, safety, and oversight will be a nightmare.
This is a straight up "good idea fairy" bullshit coming from an officer. As seems to always be the case. Stupid.
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Our military installations have been turned into gun-free zones—leaving our service members vulnerable and exposed.
That ends today.
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@SamoBurja George Marshall's first act as Chief of Staff of the US Army right before WW2 was to purge the officer corps of men he considered unfit to lead
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A good exercise for interpreting news like this is to pretend that you heard it about a foreign country.
For example what would it mean if the Russian or Chinese Defense Minister asked for the resignation of their army Chief of Staff a few weeks into a war?
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
Hegseth has asked US Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement -CBS
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