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Acing the Voight-Kampff since 2019

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@Slate Spock?

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@robertmays Love you Robert. All the best man

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@billbarnwell Why do field goals get measured from the point of the kick and not the line of scrimmage? QBs don’t get extra credit throwing from a 7-step drop over a 3 step drop.

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@HalifaxReTales Same. 2 would make my top 10 (and a third would make my top 25 maybe?)

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@mattyglesias 1. Only if you also allot electoral college votes to all categories of “interests“ you deem worthy of protection. Population density seems an arbitrary factor that needs special consideration.
2. The electoral college ensures interests of only a few states are paid attention

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@davidehrlich I’m only 35 or so doesn’t the list. We had it good man

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@robertmays My god what is that unholy mess in the first shot and how do I get it in my face?

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Really not looking forward to the whole “wine mom in the White House” framing of jokes for the next 5 1/2 years.

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@HRMFireNews Smoke visible a few minutes ago from Dartmouth Crossing now almost entirely dissipated.

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@EatThisTown @HalifaxReTales Just got back from Spain and soooo frustrated that Halifax trumps them in access to great seafood ingredients but is several standard deviations away from delivering great seafood in most forms through our restaurants (generalizing here but ykwim)

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@FriedgeHNIC No Atlantic or Newfoundland times? 😶

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I will always be the kind of punk that shits on Steely Dan

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@bearethere Awww, shit indeed.

[Dov Waxman @DovWaxman]

I’m a scholar of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a longtime advocate for peace and for Palestinian rights. I have publicly opposed Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, and its blockade and now destruction of Gaza. I support the rights of students and faculty to peacefully protest against Israel, including by establishing protest encampments, such as the one on my campus at UCLA. I do not want these protest camps to be removed by the police, whose propensity for unnecessary and excessive use of force is well-established.

As a Jew, I do not personally feel threatened or unsafe because of the protest encampment at UCLA. I know some of the students taking part and believe they are well-intentioned. Many, probably most, of the protesters are simply horrified by the mass killing and near-famine in Gaza and want it to end. So do I. But I cannot join this protest because it is not just a protest against the war in Gaza.

Among the demands of the protest organizers is the demand to “sever all UC-wide connections to Israeli universities, including study abroad programs, fellowships, seminars, and research collaborations, and UCLA’s Nazarian Center.” Needless to say, I oppose the demand to boycott the Nazarian Center, which I direct. The Center is devoted to the academic study of Israel and has no ties to the Israeli government. I also oppose boycotting Israeli academic institutions and academic boycotts in general.

But it isn’t only the demands of the protest organizers that I have a problem with. One of the organizations behind the protest, Students for Justice in Palestine, has expressed support for Hamas and has even celebrated the massacre of Israelis on October 7. Being in solidarity with Palestinians does not necessitate supporting Hamas. On the contrary, Hamas oppresses Palestinians and has no concern for the lives of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. They have openly stated that they are willing to sacrifice countless Palestinian lives—“martyrs”—for their cause, which is the ultimate eradication of Israel. They have spent billions building a vast underground network to protect themselves and their weaponry, but they haven’t built a single bomb shelter for Gazan civilians or sheltered them in their tunnels. They are prolonging the devastating war in Gaza, and the humanitarian crisis there, in order to maintain their power and authoritarian rule in Gaza.

I know that many people in the pro-Palestinian movement don’t support Hamas and don’t praise the October 7 massacre, but groups like SJP lead the movement on many college campuses, exploiting the sympathy that many students rightly feel for the suffering of Palestinians. Students and faculty demonstrating in support of Palestinians shouldn’t ignore the fact that the organizers of these demonstrations are, in many cases, ideologically committed to eradicating Israel and expelling Israeli Jews, supportive of violence against Israeli civilians, and willing to ignore or even justify Hamas’ strategy of sacrificing Palestinian civilians for their political ends.

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Arithmetic

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@noahbrownpenis Do you mean the Bob Hoskins movie?

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@billbarnwell What about D) trading Fields AND trading down to find the next Purdy or Jackson later in the draft? It could mean even more assumptions of course and therefore more risk but I wonder what the midline surplus value might be. Dramatically better if you hit? Marginal even if lucky?

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@newleadership12 @jonfavs What percentage of presidential agendas get achieved? 15% would seem pretty high among presidencies of the last 40 years

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@HalifaxReTales Shame. Very cool shop.

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@ConDaddy @HeylKatme @Douggernaut_2 This one’s defect is bleach