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@AntonioGuzxx @SeizeTheNae Laettner was a starter in his first 6 seasons averaging 16 points and 8 boards, was a member of the All-Rookie First Team and an NBA All-Star in 1997. Averaged 12.8 points, 6.7 rebounds, and 2.6 assists per game over career. Was it stellar? No. But not horrible.

@SeizeTheNae They both were horrible pros, but Laettner was the better college player, Tyler was very good as well in college

Who was better in college: Christian Laettner or Tyler Hansbrough?

@dawny005 Congratulations! He looks just like you!

You are loved beyond belief, my boy. Now time to celebrate

The moment a Waymo drove full speed into flood waters. @11Alive

Yo! This is wild. Happening now in Atlanta on I-75

Drop the last cloud photo you took☁️🌤️

@OleTimeHardball "The Big O" Oscar Robertson "The Logo" Jerry West "The Big E" Elvin Hayes "Hondo" John Havlicek "Clyde" Walt Frazier "Mountain Man" Bill Walton "Chocolate Thunder" Daryl Dawkins "The Oak Tree" Wes Unseld "The Secretary of Defense " Bobby Jones "The Chairman of the Boards" Moses

All-time NBA nicknames “Dr J” Julius Erving Earvin “Magic” Johnson “IceMan” George Gervin “Pistol Pete” Maravich “The Glove” Gary Payton Hakeem “The Dream” Olajuwon Clyde “The Glide” Drexler Jason “White Chocolate” Williams “Chocolate Thunder” Darryl Dawkins

@Supersonic_Red The feeling in your gut when you took on a big hill on your skateboard or tried to jump over objects while on your bike not knowing if you were going to be seriously injured. As long as bones were not broken, mom applied mercurochrome and a bandaid and said to go walk it off.

Good morning, Generation Jones. ☕️ Yesterday’s conversation was so much fun that I woke up thinking about all the things only our generation would understand. High school was a blast then. We passed notes instead of texts. Had actual cruising spots. Memorized phone numbers. Listened to the radio waiting for our song to come on. And somehow survived without GPS, Google, or anyone knowing where we were 24/7. 🤣 We really did grow up in two completely different worlds, and I think that’s why so many of us connected yesterday. Now tell me yours. What’s something only Generation Jones understands?

@VinnysCorner1 Andre "Pulpwood" Smith

Without saying Herschel Walker, Fran Tarkenton, Champ Bailey or Terrell Davis, name a Bulldog…

@UofSC The quad.

The end of 70 years. Demolition of McBryde has started: sc.edu/uofsc/posts/20…

Fireball! Share a photo with the sun in it.

@1801MediaCo @SleeperCFB @CollegeSportsCo @TheGarnetTrust Alshon one-handed catch against Alabama in 2010 was memorable.

I think we all know the answer to this @SleeperCFB 😉 What do YOU think the greatest USC action shot is 👀

@accuweather The blue has some fantastic scenery, but the winters are brutal. I'll take the yellow states for beautiful scenery and great weather.

Choose carefully… you’re locked into the weather and scenery too 🌎

@Supersonic_Red I am Gen Jones and it has been one hell of a bumpy ride!!! I long for the stability of work and institutions that my parents had, but so much has evolved for the better as well.

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones. And honestly, it explains a lot. We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media. We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life. That is not a small thing. People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly. Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that. We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to. We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming. We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime. We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen. And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one. That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials. A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time. We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them. That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us. But we exist. We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age. And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

@chaneykyoto @AmeriqueJohnny @mynamehear GA's economy is pulled by Atlanta. NC wealth comes from Charlotte and the research triangle. The bigger cities carry the economic engines and support the middle class. Rural areas are developing at a slower pace and lack the information jobs to join the middle class.

@PerryWT64 @AmeriqueJohnny @mynamehear These are points that we can agree on, none of which are beneficial to communities in the south. Creative leaders are needed to find workarounds to these obstacles. Georgia seems to be doing better than most.

The South is amazing. Imagine making absolutely zero progress in basically any area for 160 years. That's almost a talent.

@chaneykyoto @AmeriqueJohnny @mynamehear The south has always willing to accept a social hierarchy and is hostile to organized labor. Also, business is about connections and southerners follow their parents profession. I don't think racism is any more of a factor than it is in the Midwest or Rocky Mountain states.

@PerryWT64 @AmeriqueJohnny @mynamehear But you are not willing to hazard a guess as to why the wealth inequality is quite large? Would we not say that racial injustice still plays a role in that?

@mapletone @WendellPierce @TheTNHoller Tell me how Democrats have black people "on the plantation." You think the majority blacks vote for Democrats so they can become dependent on "free stuff." This thinking is the very definition of racism.

@WendellPierce @TheTNHoller These blacks are owned so thoroughly by the plantation dems, that they’ll actively make fools of themselves and fight FOR segregation 😂

@chaneykyoto @AmeriqueJohnny @mynamehear I think wealth inequality in the south is the key to understanding the low rankings in key metrics such as education, health, etc. The poor certainly get left behind. The south has progressed in the cities, but the low tax base in poor areas leads to poor outcomes.

@PerryWT64 @AmeriqueJohnny @mynamehear There are some great universities in the south, this is true. So this begs the question, getting back to public education, why is the gap between wealthier and certain urban and rural areas so vast? Could it be lack of social progress?

@cockyt @WilGunter @GamecockBourbon @cocks_by_90 @CockyHosp True. This team couldn't be consistent because of injuries, suspensions, OL struggles and Stephen Garcia's volatile play at QB. But, the team that beat Bama that day in 2010 could beat anybody.

@PerryWT64 @WilGunter @GamecockBourbon @cocks_by_90 @CockyHosp that team couldn’t beat kentucky

Rank this game in terms of best of the 2000s? Where would it rank? Top 3? Top 5? Others ... off the top of my head it competes with. UGA 2000 Bama 2010 @ Florida 2010 Georgia 2012 Clemson 2024 Interested in hearing opinions @GamecockBourbon @cocks_by_90 @CockyHosp

@chaneykyoto @AmeriqueJohnny @mynamehear Public education in the south is primarily funded by local property taxes, resulting in extreme inequities between wealthier neighborhoods vs poor and urban vs rural. Southern colleges are competitive and offer quality education since they are funded by tuition and federal money.

@AmeriqueJohnny @mynamehear I don't know where you're getting your cousin fucking stats (and I don't want to know how you researched it) but your educational stats are WAY off. worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings…

@mynamehear The southern economy was destroyed during the war and became a supplier of raw materials (cotton, lumber, coal, iron) for Northern manufacturers. The collapse of the banking system resulted in northerners buying valuable southern land and industrial sites at low costs.