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@PerfectFitAR @Alex__Monaco At this level one bad call or non call, solo balls missed layup or when karaban was fouled but no call at the end of the Florida game last year, is the game. We need AI refs for a fair game.

@loch_vale @Alex__Monaco UConn's game plan was to be very physical and foul to take Michigan out of their rhythm and make them uncomfortable. Hurley said that. And it worked. But it also means more fouls. The foul on Karaban was, by rule, correct. Strange rule, but the officials got it right.

Watch Dan Hurley enjoying LIFE and a kid on the playground named James Breeding trying to ruin the fun at Recess The Big 10 was gift wrapped a championship in 1 of the worse statistical natty games you’ll ever see JAMES BREEDING…. #UCONN #Michigan

@dforan5 @BillSimmons Well, the nuggets are on over the air free tv again, so I suspect the viewer numbers are declining. If things were good they wouldn't give it away free right? USA Mens Olympic hockey was awesome. Is NAIA money free still?

@loch_vale @BillSimmons Likely a you problem

Good piece

@dotkrueger No, we can at least send a robot first. 4 light years a'int that far once we get out of this dark age, I.e. string dark crap.

We're not going to travel beyond the solar system, according to Leonard Susskind. And neither are aliens, coming to visit us. We may not be alone, but we are stuck here for, essentially forever. 1. The nearest star is 4.24 light years away. The fastest spacecraft ever built would require 6,600 years to get there. 2. Surely we can just build faster spacecraft. The problem is to get to anywhere close to the speed of light, we need exponentially more energy. 3. Chemical rockets will just not work. Even fusion rockets won't work. Even 10% of the speed of light is not achievable. The Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation prevents it. 4. Interstellar dust becomes hand grenades when traveling anywhere close to the speed of light. Ships break. 5. Space radiation will kill us over the time need to travel interstellar distances. Impossible to protect without massive shields, which require massive energy to accelerate and de-accelerate.

Ok, this is just awful and now I see that Obamacare needs a repeal as well. The mask is off.

Social Security always seems to be running out of money. But for some reason all of the federal programs with massive fraud never seem to run out of money.

Interested to see if Mullins stays especially with how loaded the draft is this year. With a year as a top scoring option, he could definitely improve his draft stock

@PerfectFitAR @Alex__Monaco Idk,only UConn had real foul trouble and lots of questionable calls and no calls and the flagrant on karaban changed the game. At least they didn't call a foul on the flop at the end of the first half.

@Alex__Monaco Tell us you know nothing about the rules or officiating without telling us you know nothing about rules or officiating.

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Who is more likely to spread the pertussis bacterium (aka, whooping cough)—those vaccinated or those unvaccinated? The reality (see FDA, industry, and pharma scientists sources below) is that it is the vaccinated. Why? Two reasons. First, those vaccinated are less likely to have symptoms if infected with the pertussis bacterium but the bacterium still multiplies in their nasopharynx and they then unknowingly spreading it to others (instead of showing symptoms and knowing to isolate). Not science fiction—the hard cold facts as detailed below. Second, and this makes the reality even worse, because after an unvaccinated person has been infected with pertussis (and is more likely to have symptoms and stay in bed) that person won’t get infected again for at least many years – but the vaccinated individual can become infected over, and over, and over again with the pertussis bacterium because of the defective immunity this vaccine generates. But don’t worry, legacy media, no doubt won’t let the facts stand in the way of their hyperbolic reporting. They will blindly, like religious adherents, seek to blame, persecute, and shame those who do not inject this product instead of facing the reality: those vaccinated are more likely to spread this pathogen. If you don’t agree with the foregoing, take it up with the FDA, industry scientists, infectious diseases societies, and the hard cold data and science: - As the FDA explained in 2024: “aP [acellular pertussis] containing vaccines induce helper T cells (TH2) memory and neutralizing antibody responses that effectively prevent symptomatic disease but fail to prevent colonization and carriage.” fda.gov/media/181937/d… - As those considered the world's leading pertussis vaccine experts, pharma consultants, and infectious disease societies explained in a consensus paper on pertussis vaccine in 2019: “Natural infection evokes both mucosal and systemic immune responses, while aPVs [acellular pertussis vaccines] induce only a systemic immune response. … Mucosal immunity is essential to prevent colonization and transmission of B. pertussis organisms. Consequently, preventive measures such as aPVs that do not induce a valid mucosal response can prevent disease but cannot avoid infection and transmission. … aPV pertussis vaccines do not prevent colonization. Consequently, they do not reduce the circulation of B. pertussis and do not exert any herd immunity effect.” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31333640/ They also explained that: “Lack of mucosal immune responses after aPV administration favor infection, persistent colonization, and transmission of the pathogen.” - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29180031/ (“That vaccination does not prevent B. pertussis infection in humans, nor the circulation of the organism in human populations in any important manner, comes from the observation that the inter-epidemic intervals have not changed in a major way since the implementation of mass vaccination.”); pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30793754/ (“Because of linked-epitope suppression, all children who were primed by DTaP vaccines will be more susceptible to pertussis throughout their lifetimes, and there is no easy way to decrease this increased lifetime susceptibility.”). For a detailed discussion with many more citations and irrefutable evidence, see Chapter 9 of Vaccines, Amen.

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. It is easier to wage a battle against distant abstractions than to fight the quiet war inside one’s own soul. Yet this is the only war that ever mattered.” — Leo Tolstoy

@normonics @shagbark_hick Yes. They suspect that he will go west, and he should try it at least, as the weather is great and tons of empty space, cheap land. Just the change itself is tonic to the soul.

perhaps, sure that is true to some extent but if the Shagbark Saga has highlighted anything, it is that we are all bound in one way or another. he is torn, and he hasn't yet decided what to do about this tension. has non-committal.... NYS is "local", but SW is calling.... etc etc etc .

I'm somewhat surprised that after taking nearly a 3-month break from this place, I can log in and it is as if I never left. You just pick right back up where you started, nobody skips a beat. Whereas IRL, if you stopped going to your daily pub for 3 months, then came back -- there's a solid chance the vibe would've shifted quite substantially. I've even found this to be true at very old bars with a cast of lifelong locals: new bartender, someone dies, new set of guys starts coming, etc. Seems like as compared with the offline world, "internet culture" is abnormally constant. The white noise is loud enough that none of the particulars tend to have anything quite like the ripple effect they'd have IRL. Makes me wonder what a 5-year break would feel like.

@shagbark_hick @normonics They don't like free men...

@normonics makes sense, and probably true of every real "poaster" to at least some degree. Likely that the more stubbornly heterodox the poaster's natural disposition, the more prominent this effect is.

@jjcouey @DavidBCollum @JamieBell116 You should read his year in reviews from the beginning to the present, he's written those besides podcasting and they are great.

@DavidBCollum @JamieBell116 THAT YOU CURIOUSLY NEVER PRESENTED TO EVEN ONCE BUT I PRESENTED SEVEN POSSIBLY EIGHT TIMES…THIS MAN IS PEAK PODCASTER. THINK ABOUT IT. WHAT HAS HE DONE BESIDES PODCAST IN YEARS? DECLARE JOE ROGAN ACOLYTES BRILLIANT AND…SELL GOLD OR BITCOIN IS MY FIRST GUESS

ONCE YOU SEE SCRIPTED CLOWNS LIKE @DavidBCollum PROMOTING FRAUDS LIKE LES WEINSTEINS KIDS YOU CAN SEE WE HAVE A PLAYER THERE IS NO WAY THIS GUY IS LEGIT HE IS PROMOTING SERIOUS TRAITORS FOR YEARS NOW THE LIST IS LONG INTRAMUSCULAR INJECTION IS DUMB RNA CANNOT PANDEMIC

Texas is one step closer to leading the country in banning mRNA! EDWARD DOWD

this is the most incredible video you will ever watch youtube.com/watch?v=tK9VQV…

"Imma be honest, I thought it was for the tie." 😅 Braylon Mullins joins SportsCenter after hitting his miraculous game-winner to send UConn to the Final Four 🎯

You’re never out until you’re out. Play the game in front of you. Not the game you wanted to happen. Not the game that just happened. Not the game you hoped would happen. But the game that is happening. It's a remarkable lesson for basketball, for all of sport, and really, for all of life. In the Elite 8 of the NCAA tournament, the UConn Huskies came out flat against the No. 1 seed Duke. The Huskies trailed by 15 at halftime. No. 1 seeds were 134-0 all time in the NCAA tournament when leading by 15 or more points at halftime. That’s across the entire NCAA tournament history. Every round. Every year. UConn had every reason to give up. But they simply refused. Most people check out when the odds turn against them. But UConn never stopped playing to win. Their big man Tarris Reed Jr. put the Huskies on his back. He played incredibly on both sides of the ball. The Huskies cut the lead to 13. Then to 11. Then to 7. Then to 5. And then, in the final seconds of the game, they cut the lead to two. Duke inbounded the ball, UConn pressured and forced a turnover. With less than a second on the clock, Braylon Mullins—who had shot 0 for 4 from three—put up a deep 3 from the logo, and nailed it. UConn 73. Duke 72. 134-1. After the game, UConn coach Dan Hurley said this about Mullins: "The courage. You have a young man, he's a rare human being. The toughness about him, to take the shot, on a tough shooting night, but he was due." It was an off night. And yet with everything on the line you have no choice but to pull the trigger. Shooters shoot. That's confidence in the process. March Madness is an ultimate test of emotional regulation. Over 3 weeks and 6 games, nothing ever goes to plan. You prepare. You practice. You visualize. Then stuff happens. The difference between those who collapse and those who rise? How they respond, especially when things don’t go their way. What's true in basketball is true in life. It's easy when everything is going your way. But things will go wrong. You'll fall behind. The score won't look good. Most people check out when the odds turn against them. UConn never stopped playing their hardest. Not when they were down 19. Not when they were 1 for 11 from three. Not when history said it was over. It’s called having a next play mentality: You can't control what already happened. You can't control the score. You can only control the next play. One stop. One bucket. One possession at a time. That's how you erase a historical deficit against the No. 1 team in the country. It's how you work through the biggest challenges in life too. Excellence does not mean control. It does not mean perfection. It means refusing to quit on yourself when the situation looks hopeless. It means trusting your preparation even when nothing is falling. It means playing the game in front of you. Not the game you wanted. Not the game you hoped for. The game that is happening. Stay in the arena. Play the next play.

@theblockspot 1. 1992 Kentucky-Duke 2. 1983 Houston-NC State 3. 1985 Villanova-Georgetown 4. 2016 North Carolina-Villanova 5. 2026 Duke-Connecticut 6. 2008 Kansas-Memphis 7. 2021 Gonzaga-UCLA 8. 2002 Indiana-Duke 9. 1995 UCLA-Missouri 10. 2019 Virginia-Purdue