Obtuse1

I can't believe this has made it to the second page without a mention of Jim Brown. Even without a Heisman, he is arguably the most dominant college football player ever and has even fewer peers in the argument for greatest college athlete ever.

My top ten would be very RB-heavy, with Brown, Jackson, Walker, Jim Thorpe (also a multi-sport star), Red Grange, Earl Campbell, Sanders, Archie Griffin, and Sayers. The only non-RB in my top ten would be Butkis. Staubach is close to top 10 and Manning might make my top 20.

I think Cannon is the best LSU player ever, but I need a little more time to ruminate on Burrow, it is likely he will eclipse Cannon in my mind over time and jump ahead of all quarterbacks save Staubach.

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Some say that, but the Miata's customer base in largely male.

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Miatas are one of the models I see a lot of at track days, and the drivers almost all share one characteristic: they can all flat-out drive. They require a speed conservation line, their tighter lines, and early apex is a pleasure to watch when a good driver is wheeling a momentum car.

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They ruined it. I wanted one the last time we were looking but wife wanted suv instead.

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It is not as bad as the weight would suggest, in fact you don't notice it on the street. We drove a G90 since my wife is interested in replacing her F90 Comp, the G90 really is excellent on the street, as good or better than the F90. My wife is holding off on the decision to see if they make a G90 M5 Comp which they have suggested they won't build. If not, she may go a different path with a GT3 Touring being the next one in line. and it would be nice to have a N/A manual car back in the garage.


I can't imagine not having a car but I also can't imagine not having an SUV with a trailer (which we got more utility out of than a truck). Maybe the day when I can't get into and out of a car, but not until.

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I wonder what her thoughts are on light being a wave or a particle?

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As long as observation doesn't poison that pussy I don't really care about the duality.

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Isn’t he pretty much purely utilitarian?

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Yes, but not the classical version of Bentham and Mills. He followed the Hare version of preference utilitarianism. Singer worked on the practical application of Hare's ideas. He has changed in his later years to a different form of utilitarianism, hedonistic utilitarianism which bends back more to the Bentham/Mills concept but I haven't read much of his writings on this.

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What's the draw? And do you just not mind spending 30% more on your food?

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This is how the service industry works:

You pay people to provide a service because you either can't do it or would rather spend your time doing something else. For most people picking up food is something they can do, but don't derive any joy/profit from it, they would rather spend that time doing something else.

I started using it at work. Going out to pick up food takes a minimum of 18 mins from leaving my desk to getting back. Billing that 3/10ths of an hour just one day pays for my food for more than a month. While I do like to get out of the office for an hour and eat paying someone to bring me food is actually profitable for me.

We do it at home more often now simply because we would rather continue doing what we are doing whether it is some for of work or fun.

While it is a cliché, how many people will be on their deathbeds bemoaning the fact that they didn't spend more time picking up takeout and less time hanging out with their wife and kids.

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The people waiting in line to buy J’s aren’t typically the most financially savvy

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The funny thing is, probably half the line waiting for Gamma Blue 11s were planning to resell them. Capitalism at the grassroots level. They will likely be hot, even though the sneaker market has cooled, because they are the first retro of the 2013 release that has always had a following.

I can't imagine the liability insurance increase a company would see to make them, but I would have to have it. It would be a tool I would find jobs around the house just to use it.


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The question is why do you want to erase the fear? Humans have an innate and healthy fear of heights. Outside of robots like Alex Honnold most people display it at times. He and most rock climbers I know still have a fear of heights, most of us just couch it as a healthy respect. Climbers without any fear of heights will likely soon be dead: there are old climbers and there are bold climbers but no old bold climbers.

If you want to be able to manage fear then you need to be off the ground regularly. The only thing that works is habituation, so that the stimulus has a decreased effect on you over time. Single extreme exposures almost always do the opposite, plus I don't find skydiving to be the same stimulus as being 20-200 feet off the ground, your brain processes that differently than being 12,000 feet off the ground.

If you want to reduce your fear reaction to heights, start low, like a ladder, and repeat it often, increasing the height over time. That being said I am not sure it is needed for most people. Unless you have a gripping fear of bridges, elevators, tall buildings, or other things many people experience every day there is not much need for it.

If her biceps were all muscle, she would be out repping Anatoli with the 80kg dumbbells.