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Meso models still like some flakes at the end

We in sref range yet

Shhhh they don’t know it was me. That chair is earning its keep. Cant imagine anyone would give them a hard time. I hope it was just a clarification that yes it is ok.

It may have been banned but I’ve seem people fishing in the pond I pass off route 30 between my house and the Shopping center everytime I go. Seemed harmless though.

Wasn’t there some site that had the euro for free?

If the temperature bias is pronounced enough that would throw off everything else.

I’m not qualified to say but have to speculate how easy the fix will be. Somehow it took the old gfs cold bias and put it on hyperdrive. Wonder how far away a “fix” is.

@Ralph Wiggum My joke aside I feel bad for Wentz. I’m not one of the iggles fans who thinks he is soft. Everyone has to play banged up. But his injuries are the kind that preclude elite performance no matter how tough you are. You can’t suck it up and play through some injuries. I had similar problems, granted no where near his level. But playing soccer during my freshman season in college I started having repeated injuries. ACL, Achilles, various muscle tears. Once it started I never could stay healthy long again. It was extremely frustrating. I even attempted to resume playing twice in competitive adult leagues after taking several years off thinking I was “healed” only to have the same issues resume almost immediately. Later found out there was an underlying foot conditioning putting stress on my muscles and ligaments. But my experience makes me feel bad but also nervous Wentz will never be over his health issues. Last years injury was a freak thing due to a dirty play (imo) so maybe this assessment is unwarranted. We will see.

He probably misses the Dallas game due to Hat head.

Ehh my frustration with that pick wasn’t just the fact you don’t typically use that high a pick on a position you already have covered but that Hurts is a high risk high reward long term project. He really struggled reading a defense and making reaction throws. He was very good last year because OK designed a whole lot of one option pre determined throws with running options if the passing option was covered. That kind of thing won’t work at the NFL level. It will take time for him to learn to read a defense and it might never happen. He is very unlikely to be a viable backup option for a team with playoff aspirations this year. They would have been better off this year signing a veteran quality backup. Long term that pick could work out though. But what fan is excited for 3 years away...we want to win now.

they will...but what many fans need to prepare for mentally is that it is VERY likely several teams will get screwed this season and that is just how its going to be and this will likely end up being an "asterisk" type NFL season. For example...some players WILL test positive and the whole league can't pause because a few players on one team are out 2 weeks (or longer). And there is no objective way to say if the player is a star player then the team gets to make up a game later...fact is there will likely be a policy that if a team gets crushed by positive tests maybe something is done...but absent that teams will just have to suck it up and play through. And fans of a team need to be prepared that yes their star QB could suddenly miss a month with Covid and it could destroy their season...but that is just how its going to be. That or no season at all.

What about updates on things like daily numbers and new studies...so long as there is no policy or opinions of said data/studies thrown in?

I know my politics are well known and I don't pretend to hide my bias...but here me out on this. I am not sure how that thread can function without any politics given the current situation. And this is not intended to blast one side or the other... but there are two vastly different narratives right now wrt Covid, and which narrative people accept or more accurately are getting...seems to totally depend on their political identification. People who are conservative are tending to get their information about covid from sources which are offering a narrative (its not as big a deal, the economy is more important) totally opposite of the narrative liberals are getting from their information sources. This post is not taking sides...just pointing out that if you do not even start from a common point of reference wrt the status quo, and the differences in the perceived realities are based on politics...keeping politics out of it becomes impossible. You can't even say "if we just stick to the facts" because a lot of the problem is we can't agree on what the facts even are. Studies are contradicting, people (ON BOTH SIDES) are cherry picking data to support one narrative or the other, and that bleeds into policy. How do you discuss something without it being political when there are two diametrically opposed opinions about what the reality of that issue is based on politics? Even if all you do is discuss the issue from the "liberal" or "conservative" perspective you are inherently being political just by accepting one narrative or the other. I suppose it is technically possible to try to word everything in a completely neutral way but that is likely asking too much of everyone. BTW, this is something that started happening about a decade ago in policy debate that has at times made me want to get out of it. It used to be the "inherency" or status quo of a policy topic was accepted and the debate revolved around claims made regarding the efficacy of a policy decision on that topic. But about 15 years ago or so it started to become en vogue to run "Framework Critiques" basically attacking the whole perception of reality around the topic to try to frame the whole debate in a way that advantages you. Instead of accepting the facts this strategy was the try to throw out any facts that impede your argument and create an alternate reality that skews the round to your advantage. And its damn effective because the other team cannot possibly prepare because there are infinite "realities" you could try to manipulate the status quo into. There is no way to predict what nonsense I might try to concoct and since in policy debate "silence is consent" if you don't have an adequate retort they can win even with utter ridiculous nonsense. Policy debate has become 80% that now, because its way easier to prep that and puts the other team at a disadvantage, than it is to actually research all the facts on BOTH sides and come prepared for switch side policy debate. And worse...since judges today are mostly debaters from 10 years ago...its become totally accepted with very few judges taking points off for crazy stupid arguments that lack logical consistency because they were running that crap 10 years ago themselves. And before anyone thinks I am saying it is "crazy" because its conservative...trust me 90% of these plans are extreme liberal manipulations of reality. Keep in mind these are usually social activist high school students...you don't tend to get a lot of extremely conservative policy debaters at that level. But I see the same disturbing trend I noted years ago in debate bleeding into society now. Don't argue against facts you dont like...just throw them out and create a different narrative. Destroy objective reality and then you don't have to bother arguing against anything that is inconvenient to your claims.

There have been other periods in our history like this. We just fooled ourselves into thinking we were past all that.

Maybe we should consider creating a position in our society where someone with authority could provide steady guidance and leadership. Any suggestions what we could call such a position? If you watched fox or read a right wing blog for 5 minutes you wouldn’t ask that question. Of course in fairness conservatives could say the same thing about cnn/msnbc/NYT. People are getting two vastly different narratives right now.

Amateurs.... Upstairs for convenience basement fridge basement bar top shelf rail And the answers include 107 teenagers, a 5 and 2 year old, Phin, Mersky, Vice intelligence hiatus, mdecoy, rva, and that kid in Delaware who should still do his Fing homework and no I don’t want to drive there and fight you!

Why do people buy margarita mix? It’s just tequila, Cointreau or triple sec, and lime juice.

There was a May snowstorm that affected the higher elevations in VA and NC when I was a kid. Would have been around then. But I remember some higher totals very high up, places above 4000 feet in SW VA and NC. I also thought it was later in May, almost Memorial Day but my memory might be off it was a loooong time ago and where I was in NJ it was just a miserable weekend with temps around 50 with rain.

It only occasionally makes sense, occasionally

If you look at the long term curve it’s easy to figure out where we really are ignoring the predictable weekly fluctuations due to reporting procedures.

Most of the planning I’m aware of is for summer school and fall. Annoyingly some of the suggestions aren’t realistic. Lots of details need to be worked out. Directives with no way to realistically implement them isn’t helpful. That’s like a high stakes game of “not my problem, I told them what to do and they didn’t do it”.

Yes and there are other studies that contradict. When we have contradictory evidence what that means is “we don’t know yet and we need to further examine it” not go with the study that fits what I want to be true.

@mappy Ugh sorry posted a reply before I read the rest of the thread. If you want to remove it I understand...but I do think maybe it’s worth leaving a factual retort to what was left implied by that post.