ShrimperDan

They are getting an actor who played one major character for years to play another major character in a sequel and can bring anyone back to life at any point basically because of the multiverse, who really cares if he breaks the fourth wall tbh. They jumped the shark already.

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Don's always felt much more complex to me aside from the fact that both of them could have been stronger men and not made terrible choices consistently along the way. Tony on the other hand, was doomed from birth and the cesspool environment he was stuck in.

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Really it boils down to the fact that Don doesn't know who or what he is from an identity perspective. Is a big house, good looking wife, and kids his identity? When he loses it he thinks it is. Is he really just Dick Whitman, can he ever become more than his upbringing? And then to me the 'zing" at the end isn't just him coming up with the idea for the Coke commercial, its him figuring out that he is an 'mAd Man'. That is what he is good at, and even more than that its who and what he is.

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Its TikTok brain rot

The algorithm feeds them psychosis and lies again and again

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My theory is that they've always thought this way.

SIDS is starting to make a lot more sense.

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The MAGA establishment basically installed Donalds as the nominee.

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I don't really like Donalds because his campaign felt (and was) very inorganic, but Fishback was very clearly more social media bubble hype than substance. No one else on the ticket was particularly inspiring either.

Looking at Donalds' platform/plans on his site, I don't hate it.

-If you enact sanctuary city policies or don't cooperate with ICE you get 0 dollars from the state government

-His education initiative where kids (and their parents) get together with the school and start career planning and figuring out a way to actually get there by 6th grade is genuinely good. And its not locked in long term, its a living document. I wish I had that growing up.

-Wants to create basically a comparison shopping tool for all forms of insurance in Florida, first program of its kind in the country. Particularly nice in Florida with our high insurance rates.

-Regular forensic audits at all levels of government.

I'm not anti-data center so that doesn't bother me as long as he doesn't try to jam them in everywhere in places where it doesn't make sense.

Kind of wish he had some bigger goals. He has the generic "Improve infrastructure" type stuff.... tell me in detail how you plan on doing it then.

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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One of my favorite bits of history is the contrast between Charlemagne going to the Rome to be crowned the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and being crowned by the pope (supposedly reluctantly, I have doubts), and Napoleon a little over a thousand years later getting the pope to come to him and then crowning himself. Just such a cool link there to me.

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I/m not so sure opening China for business when the rest of the world was in shambles would lead to the exponential growth the US saw as an economic Superpower in the 40's-60's. Cheap labor would have been very detrimental to our economy as it is today. Also, the Chinese were an economic Superpower for thousands of years prior to the Japanese invasion. I don't think even the Japanese even realized how far they had fallen. An economically viable China would definitely not have led to the technical innovations from our rise as a Superpower.

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The nationalist government was still extremely corrupt and inefficient. Everyone wants to view it like they would be an enormous Taiwan and I don't think thats the case. Taiwan became what they are in large part because of our support of them in the wake of the Korean War.

The nationalists were also extremely unpopular with common folk in China so you would have significant internal strife even if they did stay in power. Truthfully another communist movement later on could very well have still taken power if we didn't intervene. Its interesting to think about.

Present day China is what they are because they aren't really all that communist when it doesn't benefit them to be.... they kind of operate on this sliding scale that allows innovation to a point, but then when the private industry gets a little too powerful the government comes in and regulates. It really a hybridized model economically, up to a point anyway.

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That was very true in 2023 and 2024. Last year I thought Aguilar did a pretty good job. He had the odd catastrophic interception in him though. It’d have been nice if he had a defense behind him like Nico and Joe got.

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Aguilar played well enough to make a playoff run with if you had any kind of defense. He didn't have any room for errors.

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Has the Veer and Shoot been solved?

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Byrum didn't really light it up against any of the tougher teams he played last year. Even against UF when they won it wasn't because he was slinging it around or running all that well, UF was just stuck in the mud offensively because we had Sling Blade calling plays.

I don't know if you can really "solve" that offense. The principles are just an expanded form of what offensive coaches have been doing since football was invented and moves the decision making process from more post-snap to pre-snap for the QB.

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They’d probably want to arrange it so they play 3 straight road games each time they travel to the U.S., then 3 straight home, etc., so they only make 3 trans-Atlantic trips per season. But don’t know how well being gone from home 3 straight weeks would sit with the NFLPA.

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I wouldn't be shocked if they did choose London if the team had a city that was kind of their "base of operations" in the US. Player housing potentially, practice facility, all that. It might even be their main facility and they just play the games in London.

IDK if I see even a quarter of the guys drafted to that team actually living in London.

I don't really know the specifics yet of what I'm going to cover, but I'm planning on traveling Europe for the summer with my oldest before she goes to college. If I can't take off for that long I'll just quit my job and then find another when I get back :lol: