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could also be his spleen
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How Is Everyone Finding Updated Information?
TheBrownBear replied to CABraves-BillsFanSince1992's topic in The Stadium Wall
Twitter works fine for me. Other than hating Musk, what issues are people running into with Twitter that have made it worse for obtaining Bills news? Just curious since I never really used the platform other than following the links from the training camp report threads here. -
Holy cow! It's like the Beatles' first trip to U.S. soil!
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Is the AFC East being overhyped this year?
TheBrownBear replied to Success's topic in The Stadium Wall
New England stinks, but the Jets and Dolphins will be for real. Buckle up - it's gonna be a hell of a ride. -
James has done great work cracking the code of "wokeness" (an odd and pernicious blend of Foucault post-modernism, Black radical feminism and Maoism) but I wonder if he hasn't driven himself a little insane with this stuff over the past few years. It's reached a bit of a religious fervor for him. Still, I'm glad that he gave me an understanding of the oddities I was witnessing with my wife in my own home and put her newly found catchphrases (intersectionality, praxis, radical love, embodied Social Justice, "Liberation", etc.) into a digestible context for me.
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DeSantis For President in 2024?
TheBrownBear replied to Trump_is_Mentally_fit's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Biden will have to prove himself truly incapacitated/demented in debates (which honestly may happen) to lose to Trump. Republicans might lose the presidency for a generation on the abortion debate alone. -
I basically eat like that and have a six pack at age 44 (obviously not yolked out like the roids athletes though). But I am very active. It's mostly calories in vs. calories out. If you keep those equal, you'll stay in shape. And when you gain a pound or two, just put yourself on a deficit for a few days and it will come off. And I say this as a guy who has been 35-40 pounds overweight at one point and has obese parents and morbidly obese siblings.
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Ah man, that really sucks for Hines. Great returner and seems like a good dude. Seems to set up Harty and Cook for more defined roles as returners (Harty) and pass catchers (Cook). And while you never want to lose a guy to a season ending injury, before training camp even begins, is probably the best scenario since you have max time to adjust to the loss.
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I think all three QBs are great and nearly interchangeable. It's hard to argue with Mahomes' results, so he deserves the top spot. They've all had to overcome some less than ideal offensive talent deficiencies, but I'd say Josh was the least set up for success from a collective talent standpoint. Mahomes has Reid, Kelce (and had Hill (which are tremendous, almost hard to overstate advantages)), but has never had a great running back and had middling talent at WR last year. Burrow has the best receiving corps in the league, but largely played behind a garbage offensive line until last season. Josh has always played behind mediocre offensive lines and has only had the fortune of one star offensive piece in Diggs. In short, I like all of the QBs and would excitedly take any of them on my team. Mahomes has dominated the narrative so far, but they're all young and we are only about a third of the way through the story.
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He makes some points, but at the end of the day, we have a freakish, do everything, Hall-of-Fame quarterback in the prime of his career. Could we still lose the division? Sure, if injuries/bad breaks pile up. But if Allen stays healthy, the Bills make the playoffs, at minimum.
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I'm a little apprehensive. I think this team is truly right there with the Chiefs, Eagles and Bengals if our older stars can stay relatively healthy this season. But again, we are dependent on major production from a lot of players that are nearing 30 or are already on the wrong side of it. And as Josh stacks seasons under his belt and racks up hits on his body, the potential for injury or physical decline increases. This year feels like a "now or never" moment, before we have to go into a bit of rebuild period.
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Taking the emotion out of it, I think you're probably correct. Teams look "listless" when they are getting their @ss kicked. Doesn't mean they aren't trying. Having said that, they still looked like they were on skates in the snow that game. I definitely believe that Cincy was better prepared for the field conditions.
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St George is beautiful. I was in Zion a couple of weeks ago. Just astounding scenery all around in that part of Southern Utah. Of course, it's really hot there, but you're already used to Vegas weather. It's clean, safe, lots to do there and the area is growing. I think you'll love it there.
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People are waking up. I was one of these people. I lived in the left-wing echo chamber basically from birth since my Father was a union organizer/leader (btw, he's also confused and distressed by wokeness). But over the past 10 years, and certainly since COVID, the popular left-wing narratives started to seem so far removed from lived reality that I couldn't help but begin to really question them. What I found surprised me and then slowly began to disturb me once I went down the rabbit hole and began to parse out what these people were really all about. I am virulently anti-"Woke", but I am still a Liberal. I acknowledge that some level of systemic racism (and obviously outward individual prejudice based racism) exists. I'm committed to rooting these out of society where they actually exist. I believe in equality of opportunity for all (gay, trans, straight, brown, black, Asian, white, abled, disabled, woman and man). I always try to live with love in my heart for my fellow man, and treat all reasonable people with the respect and dignity they deserve. I want all Americans to live their best lives. If people want to call me a bigot or a white supremacist for always doing my best to treat everyone I interact with with the same level of respect, I can live with it. I have no desire to treat other adults as emotional babies who need coddling. I don't feel the need to center or decenter anyone's voice or perspective. Their personhood is right there in front of me, fully autonomous and granted the same right of free speech as I am. Every person has an individual perspective, a personal story, including wins and losses, joys and suffering. Our pain doesn't confer intrinsic human value. How we respond to it does.
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Combating imaginary racism with actual racism??
TheBrownBear replied to Unforgiven's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
It must be insanely frustrating to discover that your State funded brainwashing and struggle sessions are ineffective against the very people you've supposedly given so much support to. But they'll just keep turning the knob to the left until the gaslighting starts a house fire. That's the Communist 101 playbook. -
Better. I think the defense is better, but much of that hinges on the play of Edmunds' replacement. Offense should be better due to the additions to the line, and I like that we have a workhorse 1st and 2nd down back in Harris now. I wish we could have added a more proven playmaker to our receiving corps, but I am intrigued by the under the radar additions of Harty and Sherfield and remain a believer in the potential of Shakir, and, of course, have my fingers crossed that Kincaid can add a playmaking element out of the slot and 12 personnel groupings. Special teams should be solid as always (notwithstanding the season of Haack).
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Haha. Sorry, I thought it was clear that my post was in jest and clearly intentionally ironic. I do know my IQ and feel no need to disclose it to others. I agree with your broader points. Our office is full of whipsmart STEM Ph.D.'s and they almost universally have a lot of humility about their own intelligence and acknowledge that, however smart they may be, there's always someone else out there that can run circles around them.