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@somewheresy Kanye was the last real rock star

what worries me about Kanye West is bigger than just him, it’s that none of the pop stars we’ve made since that cohort feel as big. Huge decline in American soft power

@anto_ty This movie was made for the modern day. For those born after it released. Not the ones that birthed them

That speech from Fight Club makes more sense every day, especially for modern men who haven't found a calling worth pursuing or dedicating their lives to.

@_Zeets They are being written for kids lol

One of the problems with people not reading anymore is that the quality of overall storytelling is being reduced in everything. So many songs and their lyrics sound remedial now. Like they’re being written for children.

Dan Hurley on the two personas every head coach must master: The Jockey 🏇, and the Corner Man. 🥊 In practice — you are the jockey. You push. You challenge. You demand more than they think they have. You stretch them past comfort so execution becomes inevitable. On game night — you become the corner man. You steady. You simplify. You remind them who they are. Confidence replaces correction. Preparation is where you build them. Performance is where you believe in them.

@doemisu Capital controls the South

As someone who has lived in the south my whole life there’s something I really hate about the contemporary southern aesthetic everyone here seems to be buying into. Like you were burning people for being gay less than 20 years ago and now you have tattoos and go to brunch like

Everything we build for small children in the last two hundred years is garbage and i do not say this lightly. i have looked at it all, the plastic letters, the puzzles, the apps, the smart toys with sounds that say good job when a child presses a button. good job for what, for obeying a machine at three, for learning that the right answer makes the noise and the wrong answer makes silence. and we just taught a three year old that love is conditional, and we did it with a battery powered duck. nobody in any of those rooms asked what does a child at four actually need. a child at four needs mud on its face and a frightening beetle and a grandmother who smells like onions telling a story that makes no sense. nobody tested this, nobody got a funding round for it, but it worked for ten thousand years. and then it one day stopped because someone with a degree in something useless decided that children need curriculum at four. curriculum, the word itself is a violence against a child that still believes trees have faces. and we want to teacg it the alphabet. we are destroying prophets to make clerks.

@adaptingskill He is the greatest to ever do it

Rookie Kuechly getting knockback on an angle tackle that turns into a profile when the force player turns the play back. its very rare to generate enough force at this angle to generate knockback. crazy to stay on his feet too

@Jess_inthewild Nobody gaf

Quick question why are invasive predators even allowed to roam in the few wildlife areas available for vulnerable migrating birds in NYC?

@MikeFordJr_ He an engagement farm troll on here ha

I can agree on great coach but there are better ways at doing full speed drills vs a 3 v 1 goal line 20 yard sprint this drill doesn’t equate to football.. NFL players aren’t pussy and we would never do this drill.. called player safety per NFLPA

@beptonjr And dudes diving at ankles good last resort in game but gets legs broke in practice. Square chest or leverage shoulder tackle here especially with help on both sides

@beptonjr 3v1 no blocker is OD though lol

it’s football.. and this exact situation happens in every single football game

@aPebbleInTheSky My original point with “pretty much everyone” amended to it I think you would agree with?

@heckel03 This is just wrong. It never became private. It was a common community practice. This idea that christianity was antitattoos isn't held up by evidence. Again the church was ambivalent about it and plenty disliked the practice but no one ever persecuted anyone for tattoos

Fun fact: there is no archeological evidence of vikings having tattoos. There is only one written source that mention it. Vegvisir the famous symbol is not viking. It is a 19th century christian icelandic symbol. Even better fun fact: we have a lot of evidence of european

@aPebbleInTheSky You implied Christianity was antitattoo. I know that it isn’t, but it has been taboo at times and is more private in modern church. I don’t know where u got the persecuting bit from

@OldNewYork1664 The cities of Charlotte & Atlanta & much of the settlement of the inland southeast are both also the direct result of their states gold rushes in 1799 & late 1820s. Prior to tht ppl here were clustered around the rich soil of the coasts and DC/Norfolk/Richmond or Charleston

This makes sense: given the different peoples and reasons for settlement, the resulting cultures produced different forms of societal organization. The Scots-Irish, who poured over the Appalachians starting in the early 18th century, had their homelands devastated and dismantled. They were then shipped across the ocean, often to serve as little better than indentured laborers on the early plantation systems taking shape. After Bacon’s Rebellion and the wider availability of imported African enslaved labor, many of these settlers moved inland, away from the grip of coastal centralized government. They sought homesteads and fiercely defended their claims against all interlopers. These communities produced Regulators in places like western North Carolina and fueled rent rebellions in the Hudson Valley. They scoffed at the Proclamation of 1763, supported the Revolution, and later resisted federal tax collectors at the barrel of a gun. German migration was both earlier and more centered in Pennsylvania, though many later moved west and congregated in river cities throughout the Midwest. New York also served as a conduit for migration through the western tier and along the Great Lakes. The colony received large-scale Palatine Germans migration, initially intended to staff the patroonship estates of the Hudson Valley. Many became organized around their faith communities, Quakers and other dissenting sects that flourished in colonial Pennsylvania and eventually moved westward along the Great Lakes corridor. Scandinavian farmers who later organized the Midwest into tidy, orderly plots were often driven by foreign wars and land scarcity in their homelands. They tended to transplant entire village structures, along with familiar civic institutions, to anchor communities in the upper Midwest facilitated first by the Erie Canal and later by rail connections from the East Coast to Chicago. Colin Woodard reminds me of Jared Diamond in that the real value lies in the broad interpretive lens he introduces. Neither work is a perfect piece of scholarship, but both offer a compelling framework for understanding causation. Scholars like Alan Taylor have taken Woodard’s concept of fractious “nations” and elevated it to a much higher level of rigor and nuance.

@Tyler2Official @CollegeFBPortal A coach tell one guy to go hard while HC preaching “NFL tempo” at everyone else. Happens all the time. Apparently they called edge dude soft for not rushing hard giving a good look etc.

@CollegeFBPortal Edge going full speed and the blocker going half speed. Tell me how this is the coaching staff’s fault?

Former punter, Adam Heston, shares a clip on how he had his career ended and leg broken during a walkthrough punt drill at SEMO… 👀

@m_f_thatherton @RolandGunnTN Plenty of others. U can work at any retail giant, food service, landscaping, real estate, construction manager/grunt. Gas station employee. HS history/coach. Personal training. Auto sales. Bank of America rep (adds daily commute). Wknd fish at lake Wylie. What more could u want

@heckel03 @RolandGunnTN It’s like your two zoomer career paths there are CDL and GameStop employee, at least culturally

Around here the primary forms of Zoomer whites are 1) Contractor-American types (big truck, cap, “country preppy,” listen to Zach Bryan) 2) Diner Goths Both of these come in wigger variations

@aPebbleInTheSky We have evidence of many other similar nomadic raiding societies that practiced it and we know that humans have always did it some howway. I’ve read IBN FADLAN verified account too. Real evidence. It may not have been prevalent as TV show VIKINGS says but it undoubtedly was there

@heckel03 Not true. This is more complicated than that. We have evidence of a lot of tattoing across european history. It certainly didn't emerge after Cook's journey to the pacific islands. But we have no evidence of vikings having tattoos except one written source. If tattoos were

@aPebbleInTheSky It never disappeared in the emergence of Christianity, it just became more private/certain sects kept certain traditions alive. Tattoo is just unique art style because before pictures the art would basically be gone w the wearer, yet of humanity’s oldest practices in spite

@heckel03 common amongst the norse at the time, more people would've written about it and it wouldn't have disappeared in the emergence of christianity. Because in italy during the middle ages there were tattoing cultures

@adamheston_ @hill0910 The issue that caused your injury that you pointed out is the difference in playing tempos by everyone on the field, which is due to poor coaching and direction. U can pick any guy and he’s moving diff tempo than any other guy out there. Game prep everyone should look the same

@BashfulBigot It’s actually the same people, the energy within them has shifted due to external influence. Screens

Normal people don't do things anymore. They watch paint dry. Anyone with influence, from a local tiny law office, to a small city council, to large financial outfits is a freak of some kind. Even something as small as opening a new coffee house. Somehow energy has shifted to them