Tiger Prawn

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I know flooding the economy with money causes inflation, However the government is spending this money regardless. Surely, some genius on this forum can explain to me why this wouldn’t work in a way my simple mind can understand.

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Printing an extra $2-3 trillion a year is going to make your money worthless. The economy would crash because prices on everything would skyrocket with that kind of inflation and everyone’s life savings would be worth a fraction of what it used to be. Banks would collapse because inflation would be far outpacing the interest they make on existing loans.

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Genuine question, how does tanking the organization help get a new arena?

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It doesn't, at least not in Dallas. The team sucking means that there would be even less public support or political willpower to spend a massive amount of taxpayer money on a new arena, especially with most people thinking the current arena is still very nice.

So when the team owners demand a new arena and the city says no, then they have a reason to go to the other NBA owners to get permission to relocate.

Supposedly the new owners want a complex with a casino resort alongside a new arena, and that's not happening in Dallas unless Texas changes their mind about legalizing gambling in the state. If they can't get it in Texas, then hello Vegas.

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Loss of consortium on there?

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He drove a Tesla. He wasn't getting any before his car got keyed up

Apparently people are salty that the kid was using livescope.

Blame BASS for not banning FFS, not the kid for using something that provides an advantage and is allowed by rules.

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What exactly is rec league?

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Local playground intramural leagues that were the only leagues around for most of us 35 and older when we were young

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but we saw the exact opposite of this in football after all the bitching and moaning this would happen there too

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Did we really though?

Boise was the only non-P4 team to finish in the top 20.

If you look at last year in the context of the BCS or 4 team playoff era, it would have looked overall like a pretty normal season. Look at the top of the polls after the final week of the regular season. The top 7 were all teams that have traditionally been elite level programs and frequent contenders. It only seems like last season was weird because we were talking about Arizona State, SMU, Boise, Indiana, and BYU as playoff contenders....which was more to do with conference realignment and the expanded playoff field.

I don't think we really had more upsets than normal last year. It just seemed like there was more parity because so many teams still had playoff hopes alive late in the season thanks to the 12 team playoff format.

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Guys that don’t play want to find somewhere to play. Shocking development.

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And guys who weren't highly recruited out of high school became breakout stars at mid-majors want to jump ship to a P4. NIL combined with unlimited transfers is terrible if you liked seeing mid-majors with a roster of quality upper classmen upsetting the blue bloods whose best players are often one and dones.

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In other news, I didn’t see many threads about all those coaches not fulfilling their contracts and leaving their players for a raise. Hmmmmm

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Those contracts have buyout clauses in them. If a coach leaves for another job, the new school hiring him has to pony up the money to buyout the remainer of his contract. Unless player scholarships start having buyout clauses where the new school owes money to the old school for a transferring player, then you're comparing apples to oranges.

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Declining NIT bid was embarrassing

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Accepting a consolation postseason invite after going 3-15 in conference play and finishing 15th out of 16 is embarrassing. Just put an end to the crap season.

Plus you're dealing with the transfer portal being open and current players possibly leaving the team while you're in the middle of the NIT....which would be another embarrassment. Portal opened today and 3 LSU players are in it already.

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the levee police

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Can someone explain to me what the purpose of having a completely separate police department for the levee district? Why not just assign those responsibilities to LSP or the local city/parish police departments?

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The recovery of game animals these hunters kill on public land is going to be problematic.

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No different than shooting a deer out east that runs onto an adjacent property. Don’t shoot shite right on the property line boundary and you won’t have that issue