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@StoolGreenie Dan, you probably remember better than anyone, during the 2021 season, Jaylen was the better playmaker and was our best player before tearing a ligament. I thought he'd come back from injury as a better passer but looks like it took a few years to materialize.

This is where I think advanced numbers can miss the mark In this piece it's suggested that Jaylen Brown hasn't improved as a passer, and just has more opportunities. That's simply not true if you actually watch him play and have throughout his entire career. For example - His processing is faster - He's making reads now that he wasn't prior - He's making passes now he wasn't capable of making in years prior There's just no way someone who has actually watched the career progression of Jaylen Brown would come to the conclusion highlighted below. You may not think he's a top 3 MVP (which is fine, he's prob 5-6th), but this is why people push back on the use of advanced metrics, even though they can be helpful

You will never defeat this.

Wow yeah sounds like a really bad wound bro haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Things I have seen in the rubble of Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon in the past week. More here: instagram.com/p/DW9f6buDhWy/…

Nothing the Pope is saying is actually woke, by the way. It’s all in line with boilerplate Catholic Social Teaching that’s been in practice since at least the 19th century. American Christianity, including Catholicism, has just gone so completely off the rails it sounds radical.

Dad with stage 4 cancer dies after insurance company said tumor-shrinking treatment was 'not medically necessary' trib.al/aYAtuEv

I know students who have been expelled, imprisoned and deported, and I know others who have been directly threatened into silence. You talk like this because you aren’t funny and it’s the only way you know to get attention. You will be reborn as a flea

@SamuraiTakedown Before this is over we will see the end of NATO EU Pax Americana (this is probably already over) Israel And we'll see Reunification of Taiwan and China peacefully The Eastern bloc normalizing relations w China Security guarantees for west Asia provided by Iran

Things will not go back to "normal". We are in the early stages of a world war that isn’t going to end anytime soon.

Grown Men At Work

This is what @nikitabier was hired to do at X. This is what @elonmusk spent $44bn for. Being a machine for Israeli propaganda.

في مشهد يهز الضمير الإنساني، وثقت الكاميرا لحظات احتضار طفل فلسـ.طيني بعد أن استهدفه قـ.ناص إسـ.رائيـ.لي بدم بارد. الطفل ينزف ببطء، وحده، دون أن يُسمح لأحد بإنقاذه... صرخة البراءة التي خنقت أمام صمت العالم. كم من الأطفال يجب أن يسقطوا حتى يتحرك الضمير؟

This boy from Gaza was sniped by an Israeli sniper and no one was allowed to help him.. He BLED until he DIED..

Her name was Ritaj Rihan, 9 years old. “A sane country does not kill children as a hobby.”

Two children—aged 4 and 5—abducted by Israeli soldiers.

CNN claims that voices on the left and right uniting on their opposition to the Iran war is deeply rooted in “antisemitism” Utterly brain dead and shameless propaganda

Absolute heartbreak on Al Jazeera. A brave resident exposes Israel's deliberate targeting of civilians. He breaks down after carrying a three year old child with shrapnel in his head. He confirms there were absolutely no military targets, just innocent families. Pure evil.

Here's my best guess at what's going on right now. Iran and Israel are in a game of diplomatic chicken, each trying to fracture the other's military coalition. The Israelis want to either continue the broader war or reduce it in scope by forcing the Iranians to abandon Hezbollah. The Iranians are attempting to exert pressure on the US to restrain Israel and withdraw from the war, while trying to isolate Israel internationally. Much of the commentariat on here is focused on the Iranians 'revealing their weakness' by not immediately launching a counterattack on Israel. This doesn't make much sense to me. The Iranians almost immediately played their strongest non-escalatory card by re-closing the strait. Doing so exerts pressure on the US, not on Israel, which shows the Iranians understand the fundamental reality of the power structure they're up against. The Israelis can only be stopped by forcing the US to restrain them, or taking huge escalatory steps that have a good chance of leading to Israeli nuclear strikes on Iran (desalination plants, energy infrastructure). The closure of the strait denies Trump any claim to a military victory and compounds the economic damage that's already inevitable at this point. Meanwhile, there's been a flurry of diplomatic activity from Iran. Spain and South Korea are making moves by reopening their embassy in Iran and sending a special envoy to Tehran, respectively. A increasingly long list of countries have made public statements over the past day demanding Lebanon be covered by the ceasefire. Araghchi has been calling everyone in the region over the past 24 hours, and the UAE has publicly condemned the Israeli strikes on Lebanon (very surprising). These are good signs for Iran, which can achieve major gains in Israel's international isolation by capitalizing on their breaking of the ceasefire. Even better are the signs of the normalization of relations with the rest of the world. If this continues, it'll demonstrate how fundamentally effective the Iranian strategy has been in this war. If they can secure broad international recognition of their right to control and impose tolls on passage through the strait, it'll be a massive victory. The continued closure of the strait, which the Iranians have made clear is the fault of Israel, will drive a wedge into the coalition currently fighting Iran. The Iranians have made dozens of statements asserting they will not abandon Lebanon. And I don't think it's politically tenable (internally) for them to do so even if they wanted to. The Israelis aren't doing particularly well in their ground war against Hezbollah either. So we'll have to wait to see how this plays out. It's not impossible that the Iranians are in a weakened position, or that they'll lose their nerve. But I don't see any reason to assume this is the case as long as the strait remains closed. The current situation is a pressure cooker for the US/Israeli relationship, and the American relationship with the rest of the world. Iranian patience makes sense here.

The saddest advisory: after at least 100 Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon, advice should you come across a parentless child. It says stay calm and reassure them, take them to the nearest rescue centre, call the authorities

Bilbo when he sees the ring in Rivendell.

It is obvious that when the US and Israel both fall, the Zionist elites will turn their weapons on American citizens in order to create a serfdom. Americans are sedated cattle who would welcome their own chains for more Netflix.