14caratgoldjones

Here’s a reason for basketball. The European game is more fundamental and cerebral where the American game is about speed, flash and athleticism. The Europeans are showing the fundamental game is just as affective as the athletic game.

Their youth programs - emphasize not just 3’s, but MID range jumpers, pump fakes, pump passes,ghost step, the illusions, along with ball control, free throws, etc. The mid range shot has been irrelevant in US basketball for 40 years. It’s a 3, a dunk, or inside the paint play.
Our fans want to see acrobatic, high flying, athletic plays. 2 points is 2 points in Europe.
White kids in the US see our style of play and what brings the oo’s and ahh’s in the crowd and say, “ok, I can’t do that”. Quit in middle school. They didn’t have a pure basketball fundamental’s coach to help overcome the lack of athleticism. Plus, I’m going to have to work twice as hard and I’m going to do that.
Larry Bird made a living playing “white boy” ball. J Will made it uncool to play “white boy” ball.

I think the pendulum is swinging back somewhat in basketball, and that’s completely due to the Euro style of play.
Don’t get me wrong, black basketball players will always dominate the sport. Only a fool would argue. I think we all like to watch someone make crazy, athletic plays that we know 99% of the population couldn’t pull off. It’s like watching Superman.

Europe took our old 1950-1980 basketball coaching and fundamental books and applied it to their game.
Our coaching system don’t need to rely on the fundamentals, the illusions, the fakes, the simplicity of just shooting a ball into a basket. We rely on our players overall athleticism for a competitive advantage. White kids can’t/won’t thrive in that system.

The obvious answer would be Lake Guntersville but don’t count out Pickwick.

I gotta admit, after seeing that pic, I’m not even mad. God punished that one from the get go. Kinda cruel what he did.
A face only a mother could love.

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OU flukes a baseball title, a couple of Tn posters can't stop thinking about Texas

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I fixed.

Chocolate Thunder from the planet Lovetron.

Dude shattered backboards. The NBA changed to breakaway rims because of him!

I wouldn't be too concerned just yet.
I know 6 families that have had “contracts” to sell their land to developers, who in turn hustle find an end buyer.
Not one of them closed and 5 outta 6 so far fell through. I’m pretty sure it’ll be all 6, but they’ll know in November.
These were all written up well over a year ago.

I was shocked at how many of these actually do NOT get off the ground. Maybe 1 in 15 from start to finish?
The property has to meet all the criteria with resources, but also get through all the politics to reach the finish line.
I watched a family go from extreme euphoria, thinking they are going get 42 million dollars, to pure agony in one phone call. I can’t imagine the roll coaster of emotions. I’d be sick.

My kids know where I stand but I don’t push them either way. I show examples in society of what drove this, and why this is that way, agendas, etc. due to laws and politics.

I expect my daughter to go off to school and become a little left leaning. It’s a part of the process of becoming full circle. I went through the same to an extent.

What WILL hurt is if they do that “ultimatum” crap and say we’re not communicating with you due to your political leaning. Then, I know they’ve been brainwashed and completely lost what’s important. I preach family non stop. These are the people that have your back.
Slim chance of that happening, but it does cross my mind from time to time and how I would handle it.

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Mass surveillance centers

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We already have that today with phones, computers, satellites, vehicles, etc, etc. There’s nothing more to track. The tracking has already been done, minute by minute, for a decade. What’s left to track? Nothing! That’s 2010’s news.

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Let’s say we're talking about a mid-range data center. That's going to take in ~20k-30k gallons per day if it's a closed-loop system

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So LESS than the equivalent of your average small wood mill or tiny chemical plant of which there are at least a 100 of these scattered across Louisiana alone. I never heard the first peep about water usage being an issue until the mention of a data center. NOW, all of the sudden it’s the end of times. This is going be another Y2K. Complete panic until you realize nothing of this apocalyptic shite will ever actually happen.

People jump up and down and scream “change, no jobs, no opportunity, no progress,” until opportunity come knocking, and then scream “NOOO…. Oh shite, it’s going to change!”

Sometimes we just have to admit we REALLY don’t want change. You either do or you don’t. If you don’t, then stop screaming for progress and opportunity. Simple as that. It may not benefit ME, but to hell with the 100’s of families that it will. That’s the normal attitude today.

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And it'll bring about 10 permanent jobs to the area. The rest of the shite will be done remotely.

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Better than no jobs at all and the infrastructure won’t be stressed for years to come trying to accommodate 300-500 families.

The county will also receive anywhere from 1-1/2 to 2 million in tax revenue a month. Massive gain! Sounds like a win to me.

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I think they look for places where land is cheap and where they think the people are too poor and politically disengaged to stop them. I don't think they care about the environment or the impact on residents beyond doing the bare minimum requires by law.

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While cheap land is a plus, this is just not true. They are paying anywhere from 35,000 per acre to 300,000 per acre, or more in a few cases. Most rural land is selling for 3-5k an acre for unimproved land in the Southeast. Out of the 100’s of millions of acres of land, what they require has to fit specific criteria. POWER is #1 limiting factor. That alone eliminates millions of acres itself.
Gas lines are also a plus. That also eliminates millions more. If you find the right place where you can get the electric power AND natural gas at a specific site, that’s the golden egg.

Now you are down to just a handful of places that meet this criteria. They just don’t go for cheap land with poor people to exploit. The places they are choosing have been pinpointed and due diligence done before even CONSIDERING a Data Center build. It’s a needle in a haystack to meet the requirements. You can’t just pop one up anywhere just because the land is cheap.

I say we just get out of the rat race and let China, Russia, Europe, Asia and Middle East make major advances in AI. We can sit here and complain about fabricated anti-data center BS, and just let them rule the world, while the US drifts off into obscurity. Excellent idea. America LAST!! At least my power bill didn’t go up.