@OkieStotts Not sure how you managed to sneak by this long? Been resistant for the last 20 years 50 mi north of you. Have to focus mgmt on killing it before it bolts - once it bolts, it’s almost impossible to kill.
Opportunity Zones are about bringing resources into high-poverty areas. Which means, Opportunity Zones help people who have too often been left behind unlock their full potential.
You assume you know the answer to that question, but you don’t. Limiting salaries for no reason, he most certainly wouldn’t, but in the context of it being necessary for the survival of Olympic sports, scholarships, and post grad opportunities for 100,000’s of college athletes today and tomorrow, creates a completely separate context doesn’t it?
Try to look past the trees; there’s a large forest just past them.
Dear OKC,
We were blessed with the opportunity by @HEB to go to your city for game 7 and… wow.
Transparently, with all the responses we’ve gotten from OKC fans on here, we thought a lot of hate was waiting for us at Paycom but we couldn’t have been more wrong.
99% of your fans were so kind and welcoming, even congratulating each and every one of us after the win. The pregame chant battles were nothing but respectful and filled with friendly banter.
There is a common sentiment that you have some of the loudest fans in the NBA and that might just be true. Every single one of you on your feet the entire game, every single OKC fan in the shirt, and your use of the clappers is impeccable. An hour before tip and the arena was already full. We’re still biased towards San Antonio, but if we’re looking for a second place in crowd environment, you guys are up there.
We know that this will not be the last time we see OKC in a playoff run, I imagine it’ll be a fairly consistent thing, but after 12 games this season, your real fanbase definitely has our respect and we can’t help but tip our hat.
Thank you for being an amazing host to us, we hope all of your players get healthy, and can’t wait for the NBA’s newest big rivalry to continue.
P&L
-S
The Dust Bowl didn’t occur in the area pictured on the map. I have actually lived and worked and knew people who lived through the actual Dust Bowl in the 30’s which was in the western High Plains. And there were no trees where the Dust Bowl occurred other than the trees that were planted by people outside of the lonely Cottonwood. Any trees were mostly Bois D’arc (Osage Orange) that they could use for fence posts. It was a sea of grass, so much so, they had to plow furrows between towns as people would get lost in the sea of grass. So, try again.
Coleman Hughes reveals 90% of New World slaves were captured and sold by other African tribes
Standard history curricula treat American chattel slavery as a uniquely Western sin. This selective memory requires ignoring the rest of the documented record. Isolating the American experience hides a much grimmer truth: human bondage was the absolute global default.
Coleman Hughes outlines the missing data in how we teach the history of human bondage.
The Arab slave trade trafficked between 10 and 18 million Africans over 13 centuries.
Historian Robert Davis estimates North African Barbary pirates enslaved more than a million white Europeans.
Russia emancipated 20 to 25 million serfs in the 1860s, freeing more people than American abolition did.
In the transatlantic trade, European merchants primarily purchased enslaved people from African coastal merchants. Rival African tribes captured and sold 90 percent of those brought to the New World.
Teaching slavery as a tragedy isolated to one continent creates a curated version of the past. True historical literacy requires looking at the entire record.
Source: @JTLonsdale@coldxman
Modern history frames the American Founders' hypocrisy on slavery as the ultimate proof that their ideals were a lie. But Coleman Hughes argues the exact opposite. Writing "all men are created equal" while owning slaves wasn't America's fatal flaw.
To be a hypocrite, you first have to state a moral standard.
Most historical empires avoided this problem entirely. Hughes notes that Ottoman sultans could simply point to texts legalizing slavery. No clash of values meant no internal pressure to change.
America put itself in a moral corner. By putting equality on paper, the Founders gave abolitionists a weapon. They created a cognitive dissonance that eventually forced a resolution.
This defines the current debate over American history.
The 1619 Project looks at the founding hypocrisy and declares the system structurally condemned.
Martin Luther King Jr. looked at the exact same hypocrisy and saw a promissory note waiting to be cashed.
You cannot hold a society accountable to a standard that does not exist. The founding ideals did not excuse the system. They gave future generations the exact leverage needed to break it.
Source: @JTLonsdale@coldxman
@GiaMMacool What does this show last like a month or 2? If you think you’re going to know who someone truly is in a couple of months with virtually every engagement with that person being publicly filmed and documented, you’re a fool.
1. It wasn’t Bitcoin.
2. They can’t seize your Bitcoin if you know how to store it.
It’s kind of like cash. If you carry cash in your wallet, someone can steal it.
But if you take you cash out of your wallet and store it in a security box inside a bank vault with a hidden key….kinda of hard to steal - but it’s the exact same cash.
It’s how it is stored, and you can store Bitcoin so that it cannot be confiscated.
ex-Goldman Sachs VP ~$500K/year publicly quit through a New York Times op-ed and blew up the firm's reputation overnight
- 12 years at Goldman, head of US equity derivatives in Europe, watched managing directors call clients "muppets" over internal email
13-min and you'll learn the exact culture every top Wall Street firm hides from the public
@Three_Cone You just simply can rush a hamstring.
You can’t grind your way through it like many other injuries.
They just need time to heal and rehab….a long time unfortunately.
God bless these people. When my Mom was bedridden the last few months of her life, I sincerely wished that she could just simply go outside. She loved the outdoors and I think nothing is better for morale and psyche than being outside.
King’s College Hospital in London has opened a rooftop garden for critical care patients, with its first patient—a 29-year-old woman dependent on feeding tubes—saying the outdoor space gave her “a real boost to keep on going.”