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@RT_com The irony in all of this is Tim Heidecker has no idea he’s in a heavyweight bout with Bill Hicks over the future of free speech in the free world

Tim Heidecker’s Alex Jones impression 'cringe as f*ck right out the gate'?

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@Lewie6184 @VetMinimum @DonAtkinsonNFL @grantcohn I don’t either

@rocketgunna @VetMinimum @DonAtkinsonNFL @grantcohn That would be great, but unfortunately I don't see it happening.

A timely clarification of the 49ers/Brandon Aiyuk situation here by Lombardi, particularly with regard to the misconception some have that the 49ers must release Aiyuk by the start of the season, or be stuck paying him. This is not the case. If Aiyuk does not report for camp and OTAs, the 49ers can continue to withhold any payment, including the roster bonus that would otherwise be owed to Aiyuk In late August. I would add a few additional points: (1) If Aiyuk doesn’t show up at the 49ers facility ready to participate, the team can attach a DNR (Did Not Report) designation on him for as long as he is absent. (2) That DNR tag means not only would they not have to pay him, they could FINE him in the neighborhood of $50K per day for each day he fails to report. That fine would be stripped out of any future contract Aiyuk might sign, and the money then handed over to SF. (3) If Aiyuk is tagged with a DNR, he no longer counts toward a roster spot, and the team can and will carry a full 53 man roster (or 90 man before the cut), even though Aiyuk is still under contract. The bottom line is: The only party who can dislodge the 49ers from their complete control of Aiyuk, is Aiyuk himself—and only by reporting for training camp. As long as he stays away, the 49ers can withhold all pay, bank up $50K per day against him in fines (payable when he signs somewhere else), enjoy a full roster without him, and block him from playing football anywhere else. If Aiyuk does not report, the 49ers could simply sit on him until 2029, not pay him a dime, functionally ending his NFL career. People who think Aiyuk can just hide and wait until September are woefully mistaken. And as long as Aiyuk stays away, the Commanders will be sitting at the lighthouse window, staring out to sea, waiting for the next three years for a ship that’s not coming. Brandon Aiyuk LATEST: Showing up at 49ers HQ … is his smartest option youtube.com/live/oTVPJwx3W… via @YouTube

Here’s the truth: I think if he was honest to his teammates and coaches and said look: I’ve been going through some stuff, and he apologizes to everyone, and says he wants to play… I think he would be embraced with open arms by the organization. Wouldn’t you agree @grantcohn ? Aiyuk really can put together a crazy comeback if he waned to. The 49ers need him. He could get that ring THIS YEAR if he decided to put the wall down and make amends.

@rocketgunna @VetMinimum @DonAtkinsonNFL Waiting to see, can he face his teammates, who would probably welcome him back.

@VetMinimum @DonAtkinsonNFL I doubt that’ll happen too, but the possibility is kind of crazy. Aiyuk returning would super charge an already potent offense. It’s a shame that’s probably not gonna happen…

@rocketgunna @DonAtkinsonNFL I would say at this point a true reconciliation seems highly unlikely. However, it's the only true win-win solution. For it to happen both sides would need more than a little humility, forgiveness, and perspective. We shall see.

@Lewie6184 @VetMinimum @DonAtkinsonNFL And I think he has. But he could technically report and play out his contract

@rocketgunna @VetMinimum @DonAtkinsonNFL I think Lynch has said that Aiyuk has played his last snap for the 49ers.

@OurSf49ers @RichEisenShow I was confused about some of the picks as much as anyone was, but this context makes a lot of sense. I think it’s being overblown now.

#49ers HC Kyle Shanahan stated that the Niners had RB Kaelon Black rated as the #2 RB on the board 👀 Via: @RichEisenShow

@VetMinimum @DonAtkinsonNFL Or… imagine if both parties resolved their issue and Aiyuk returns and plays with the 49ers in some capacity. I mean, he’s still under contract. Evans and Aiyuk would be so nasty

Obviously Aiyuk knows this and if he's smart (and at this point I'm on the fence on that lol) he will show up ready to practice on day 1 of training camp. Essentially, daring the 49ers to allow him to practice rather than cutting him which would risk injury. If he practices and somehow is injured, let's say with hard to verify spinal issue (wink wink) he would be due full payment of his actual salary during the regular season until such time as he is sufficiently healed to resume playing football. This is just an unsavory mess on both sides. A side show distraction. If Aiyuk shows up the 49ers should just cut their losses and release him. But waiting to see if he'll show up to training camp, is a gutsy Machiavellian chess move that I can't blame them for making

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God dammit, this game had some of the best music that has ever been created

@JadeFertig4 @standards4men @SleeperNFL They can wait until June 1 to cut him so the dead cap hit for cutting him is taken over the next two seasons

@standards4men @SleeperNFL They voided his contract they owe him zero guaranteed money

.@RapSheet on the Brandon Aiyuk situation: “The Commanders have interest but they're waiting for the 49ers to cut him.. The 49ers don't wanna cut him because they know the Commanders are interested"

68 college students played video games an hour a day for 30 weeks. They got measurably smarter. EEG brain scans confirmed it. The setup was simple. Half the group played League of Legends, an action game. The other half played Legends of the Three Kingdoms, a strategy card game. Same hours, same schedule, no gaming experience for anyone going in. Both groups improved on attention, working memory, and executive function. The League group's gains were significantly larger in spatial attention and spatial working memory. The benefits were still measurable 10 weeks after the gaming stopped. None of this is new. Daphne Bavelier's lab at the University of Geneva has been replicating this finding since the early 2000s. Her 2018 meta-analysis in Psychological Bulletin pulled data from 8,970 participants across 15 years and found the same thing. Action games train attentional control, a brain skill that transfers to other tasks. Strategy games train deliberation, which mostly stays inside the strategy game. The mechanism is the counterintuitive part. Action games train your brain by giving you no time to think. The brain can't deliberate. League of Legends throws 9 champions, hundreds of minions, dozens of abilities, mana, cooldowns, and map state at you, all updating in milliseconds. The brain learns to perceive faster instead. That perceptual speed transfers to anything else that demands the same skill. Including surgery. The 2007 Rosser study in Archives of Surgery found that laparoscopic surgeons who played video games more than 3 hours a week made 37% fewer errors, completed procedures 27% faster, and scored 42% higher on overall performance. The top third of gamers made 47% fewer errors. Laparoscopic surgery is a 2D screen with distorted depth perception, remote-controlled instruments, and multiple data streams updating in real time. The cognitive profile is almost identical to an action video game. The 10-week persistence is the part that should change how this gets discussed. If the gains were just from practicing the game, they would have disappeared the moment the students stopped playing. They didn't. The 30 weeks rewired the perceptual system, and the rewiring stayed.

Holy f*ck. Claude can do CAD now. CAD designers:

@noobdad75 This is such bullshit lol

Here is another group of NHI mimicking a military craft. It's not our military... It's much worse. 👊💪🤙

@UltimoLegend Bam Margera has been all over my feed recently

Now push through on that last rep. You got this. I got you.

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