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Funny what happens when everyone can pay players and not just the blue bloods.

If Iowa and Iowa State match up in the Championship game the entire state of Iowa will close down

People should give Conor their own experiences. For me: -Public gatherings were widely banned, but then abruptly encouraged in many quarters because “racism” was a public health crisis. -Masks were good, then pointless, then good again. In the very earliest days, I saw it earnestly argued that officials should lie about masks’ effectiveness to prevent a shortage so that hospitals could have them. -Officials coining new names for the different variants, thereby reducing legibility to the public, because they thought it was racist for ten to be named after places. -As wascovered extensively by @aaronsibarium, Covid treatments, including vaccines and monoclonal antibodies, were allocated on the basis of race rather than risk factors in several states. -There was aggressive censorship of all kinds of COVID topics, carried out by private actors but encouraged by public ones. Initially, it was claims the virus came from a lab, but it later included arguments about the vaccine’s effectiveness, potential alternative treatments, etc. -Pfizer very obviously shut down its vaccine trial to delay any result past Election Day 2020, a politically motivated action that faced zero pushback from public health officials at the time or since. -Ridiculous health theater like forcing masking as you entered a restaurant, then un-masking as you sat down, made the entire affair feel like health theater for the neurotic instead of a serious effort to protect the public.

Did not expect Houston to look like Iowa State against Pitt tonight good lord

@AndrewCDowns Jerome Tang had a Elite 8 as well

Ben McCollum made an Elite 8 before TJ Otzelberger and has more NCAA Tournament wins at Iowa than Nebraska has in the history of their program.

Me when someone compliments a bird and doesn’t know it’s not real:

My wife is absolutely stunned. Came into room and asked why I was watching Fred Hoiberg. Had no clue he was a college coach again. Had no clue Iowa was playing Nebraska. My entire life this week has been consumed by this game and she was oblivious.

Former Tesla President @jonmcneill breaks down China's strategy to dominate the global auto industry: Every five years, China selects five industries to enter and dominate. They subsidize ~100 market entrants, and let competition play out. That gets whittled down to the top 3–5 winners. In this case: BYD, Geely, and NIO. Then they consolidate capacity under those winners—effectively handing them the infrastructure built by the entire field—and tell them: your job now is to export and dominate these markets. "So—they've gotten subsidies to get started, subsidies to operate and now they're getting capacity for free. And they've proven themselves as the winners in a hyper competitive market. And now they go enter the rest of the world where the competitors are soft." "That's their formula, and they run this formula across all kinds of industries: solar panels, TVs, bicycles, and electric cars. It's a very powerful flywheel."

This might be the best twitter account ever made

A little birdie told me that ex-Iowa State star QB Rocco Becht wrote a $10,000 check to the Perry Youth Football program, on his way out of Ames after last season. That’s beyond neat.

TJ Otzelberger said the following about other jobs earlier today. Pretty rock solid, IMO. "There comes a point in this when you're in the spot that I'm in, that chip on your shoulder you've always had, when people tend to ask questions, 'why would you want to do this or why do you believe that?' It gives us even more fuel for our fire, for what we know we can do and what's in front of us. We could not be more excited about the opportunity that lies ahead."

We really need better Summoned Skull support

There is so much power in believing things will work out even if you don't know how or when.

creatine + coffee + omega 3s + the right peptides + a social life + zero cortisol = 125 years

"If you can overthink the worst, why can't you overthink the best"

Wake up -do nothing -feel guilty -panic about future -feel powerless day ruined

Two bets were placed on human nature in the modern era. One built the most prosperous society in recorded history. One built walls, gulags, and famines every time it was tried. This is the actual record. 🧵

Nothing creates or requires poverty, you retards, poverty is the default state. The question is what creates prosperity? Free markets and laissez-faire are the answer.