@neiltyson It's presumptuous and a touch narcissistic of you to assume that of course an alien civilization would monolithically agree with you on the sanctity of science, and not just that, but your particular version of science.
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SaltyHash
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SaltyHash
@hash_salty
Realize you're living in the golden years.
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If I were ever abducted by Aliens, the first thing I’d ask is whether they came from a planet where people also deny science.
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@jarvis_best Don't you have any nasty things to say about Paraguay ahead of tonight's matchup?
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Some quick hits before I go get hammered:
- It is Friday night and there isn't a playoff game. That is outrageous. Congressional hearings.
- I shall be forced to watch soccer like a Communist.
- I just found a white eyebrow hair that, when pulled tight, appears to be about 7 feet long.
- God loves you.
- Have a great weekend friends.
- Cheers
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@BarryOnHere But Barry, Brady has the counting stats AND the longevity. And that's really what it's all about.
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Let's compare Brady, Peyton, Rodgers, Brees & Mahomes. Surely the "GOAT" is the best in SOMETHING other than team stats or counting stats.....right? Especially DURING HIS OWN CAREER.......RIGHT???
ANY/A = Adjusted Net Yards Per Attempt
YPA = Yards Per Attempt
AY/A = Adjusted Yards Per Attempt
YPC = Yards Per Completion
REGULAR SEASON:
Most MVPs: Peyton
Most All-Pros: Peyton
Best ANY/A: Mahomes
Best YPA: Mahomes
Best AY/A: Rodgers
Best YPC: Peyton
Best Passer Rating: Rodgers
Best CMP Percentage: Brees
Best TD Percentage: Rodgers
Best INT Percentage: Rodgers
Best Sack Percentage: Peyton
PLAYOFFS:
Best ANY/A: Mahomes
Best YPA: Mahomes
Best AY/A: Mahomes
Best YPC: Rodgers
Best Passer Rating: Mahomes
Best CMP Percentage: Mahomes
Best TD Percentage: Mahomes
Best INT Percentage: Mahomes
Best Sack Percentage: Peyton
WHERE IS BRADY?
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Tom Brady is the most overrated player in sports history. His GOAT argument hinges entirely on team accomplishments. Based on efficiency, he's arguably not even a top 4 QB of his own era after Peyton, Rodgers, Brees & Mahomes.
Stick to the Model@StickToTheModel
what NFL opinion makes you feel like this?
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@VisualSpirits0 This is AI. You can tell because that baby has two chins.
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Baby cages for fresh air, new York city 1920s-1930s
In the 1920s and 1930s, some families living in crowded New York City apartments placed their babies inside wire cages suspended outside apartment windows. Known as “baby cages,” the structures were designed to give infants fresh air and sunlight at a time when doctors strongly believed ventilation helped prevent illnesses like tuberculosis and rickets
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@BarryOnHere Jordan made Pippen what he was. LeBron wanted teammates that were already fully formed.
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Yeah, you need good teammates to win titles, no fucking shit.
Legion Hoops@LegionHoops
Tim MacMahon on Rich Paul’s comments saying Michael Jordan would be 0-6 in the Finals without Scottie Pippen: “If you unplug Dwyane Wade from the Miami Heat, LeBron doesn’t win titles there. If you unplug Kyrie from the Cavaliers, they don’t come back 3-1. If you unplug Anthony Davis from the bubble Lakers, they don’t win a championship.” (via @GetUpESPN, h/t @HeatCulture13)
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@clusterbitch_ Basically this screenshot is why the State of Israel exists.
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“i want to put jews in camps” meets “i want to put jews in camps”
Jeffrey Sachs@JeffreyASachs
lol
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@EsotericCD Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II was a watershed experience for me. Light saber duels and force pushing thugs off ledges. First game where you could do that, I think. Classic.
Full Throttle was a trip, too.
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The thing is, LucasArts was actually responsible for so much more than just those Star Wars games.
They INVENTED the "adventure game" genre of my childhood: MANIAC MANSION and DAY OF THE TENTACLE, the entire MONKEY ISLAND series (all of them genius, esp. the third) and the lunatic comedic joy of SAM & MAX HIT THE ROAD. I might not have even have mentioned your favorite (the INDIANA JONES series? FULL THROTTLE? GRIM FANDANGO?).
These were the formative gaming experiences of my childhood, full of humor and lateral thinking. It's a shame that "Disney Star Wars" had no more time for lateral thinking.
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If you lived through this era you know this to be true. Kids my age played REBEL ASSAULT, the X-WING/TIE FIGHTER series, and DARK FORCES to death, it was "Star Wars" slotting effortlessly into our childhood gaming lives.
(Also, big hat-tip to the LucasArts SNES team - I didn't even realize the SUPER STAR WARS series was supposed to be "hard," I just kept hacking away because I wanted to hear that music.)
Frank J. Fleming@IMAO_
LucasArts was a big part of keeping the love of Star Wars going a decade after Return of the Jedi had been in theaters.
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@EsotericCD Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II was a watershed experience for me. Light saber duels and force pushing thugs off ledges. Classic.
Full Throttle was a trip, too.
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Me: all of this Nazi talk is getting exhausting. Never mind the steady stream of "the Jews" in the timeline. Time to kind of log off. Watch some Comedy. Maybe Seinfeld
Turns on Seinfeld:
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NON-STAR-WARS-LIKER: "I LIKE 5 AND 8"
Glueboy@RealGlueboy
My most controversial (I guess lol) take is that Last Jedi is a fun movie because it feels like it was directed by a person and not a bunch of execs. Though I say that as someone who doesn't fuck with Star Wars that much. The only movies I walked away from liking is 5 and 8.
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TRUTH TOLD I THINK WE COULD ALL STAND TO BE A LITTLE BETTER AT KILLING PEOPLE
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HAHAHA YOULL NOTICE THAT THIS BULLSHITTER IS A MILITARY HISTORIAN AND NOT A NICE-GUYS-WHO-PLAY-WITH-THEIR-KIDS HISTORIAN
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@BretDevereaux
I can't help but notice these lists of 'great men' are all men who were great at killing. In the case of Alexander or (fictional!) Achilles, great at killing and *nothing else.* No scientists, artists, writers, humanitarians. Just killers. Not quite my definition of greatness.
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@BarryOnHere Jordan made Pippen look great. Maybe LeBron is just not as good at doing the same for his teammates. Are the kids still doing this "we done with the 90s" shit?
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Jordan had Pippen & Grant drafted to his team by year 4
Magic was drafted to a playoff team with peak Kareem.
Bird was drafted to team that surrounded him with multiple HOFers by year 2.
Kobe was drafted to a playoff team with Shaq entering his prime
Duncan was drafted to a team with an all-time great big man still in his prime
Steph's franchise gave him Klay, Draymond, Iguodala & Durant within his 1st 8 years.
Kareem got Oscar in year 2
Even Wemby has already been blessed with Harper & Castle by his 3rd year.
LeBron's best teammate his 1st 7 years was Mo Williams.
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@CNLiberalism We think in terms of centuries, says the leader whose country is expected to lose half of its population by the end of the current century and is desperately trying to corner the market on Russian mail-order brides.
It's always propaganda.
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The Chinese will look at you with a straight face and say “we think in centuries” as they plunge into a demographic crisis caused by one-child policy
Lara Logan@laralogan
When I was reporting for 60 Minutes in China, I was told by people I met that they regard America as inferior, specifically because they say the U.S. does not understand how to play the long game. They said with disdain: “We think in terms of centuries - Americans can only think in terms of minutes.”
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@ZODIAC_MF Hell, I'm old enough to remember the promos for the three-part series premiere specifically touting that the three episodes were being directed not only by Hill but also Richard Donner and Robert Zemekis themselves.
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HAHAHA ADULT EYES. I THINK MY FIRST CLUE WHEN I WAS A KID THAT THIS SHOW INVOLVED SOME HEAVY HITTERS WAS WHEN FUCKING *ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER* ROLLED IN
Don'tUTalkAbtMissJenkins@Jamellbell
Revisiting Tales from the Crypt with Adult eyes and I did not realize this was such a big time affair. The Exec producer list is crazy and it doesn't seem to be just for show because Walter Hill is directing the first episode with Ry Cooder at his side once again.
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@BarryOnHere Remember when he changed his name to Metta World Artest?
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Everybody always talks about Ron Artest when it comes to the Malice At The Palace, and understandably so.
But the ACTUAL bullet dodged was with Jermaine O'Neal. If he hadn't slipped on that wet spot, he would've literally murdered that fan on national television & the NBA would've been done for.
𝙹𝚎𝚝🐦⬛@ifwjet
Ron Artest was an absolute demon bro imagine someone doing this in today’s game 😭😭
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@disclosetv He means the market would "correct," and we can't have that, or stuff might become affordable for the little people.
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NOW - Trump says it's good to have 500,000 foreign Chinese students in the U.S. and for China to purchase U.S. farmland; otherwise, colleges and farm prices would collapse: "I frankly think that it's good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture."
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Bill Russell:
11 rings - 12 Finals appearances - 0 losing seasons
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar:
6 rings - 10 Finals appearances - 2 losing seasons
Michael Jordan:
6 rings - 6 Finals appearances - 5 losing seasons
If winning is what matters most, how is Jordan the GOAT exactly? How is he better than Russell or Kareem?
I guess MJ didn't have as much killer instinct as them?
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@BarryOnHere How is Tony Gwynn overrated? He was the best pure hitter of his generation and he's barely talked about anymore.
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@BarryOnHere You're making a longevity-based argument. At least be consistent (where have I heard that before)!
Also it's rich penalizing Bird for having one good decade of basketball where he wasn't playing in excruciating pain.
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We all agree Larry Bird is without question one of the best NBA players ever right? Okay. Now look at this.
Larry Bird career:
25,688 PTS - 6,756 AST - 170.7 Win Shares - 92.6 VORP
The difference between LeBron & Bird's career:
26,273 PTS - 7,428 AST - 166.4 Win Shares - 103.9 VORP
LeBron has basically doubled Larry Bird's career and morons pretend this is normal or something we've seen before lmao.
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@BarryOnHere You know, for all your parasocial bitching on the other 23's behalf, I don't think you understand that as cool as he was, MJ wouldn't give two shits. Rant on.
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LeBron has a 32-31 playoff record in his 63 playoff games with the Lakers. 1 title. 2 Conference Finals.
Jordan had a 33-30 playoff record in his 1st 63 playoff games with the Bulls. 0 titles. 2 Conference Finals.
The difference is, LeBron was in his 17th season before playing a playoff game with LA, while Jordan was at the height of his individual powers.
If you're criticizing LeBron for his time in LA, you're just telling on yourself.
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