Supermoto Tiger

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12 team playoff is dumb, 24 team is even dumber.

A bunch of 9-3/8-4 teams that have no shot at a championship

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The BCS had the best evaluation criteria with:
- strength of schedule
- computer
Both of these should be implemented.


Regarding the number of teams in the playoff:
- 8 would be perfect
- 12 too many
- 24 INSANE

10 :cheers:

covid made them straight

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1.) I've seen the movie Waiting. What is the frequency by which kitchen and/or wait staff mess with people's food and how?

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It depends. I consistently would mess with this one guy's food because the dick was always hitting on my GF who was a waitress at the restaurant.

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Are regular customers more or less prone to being victims of these criminal offenses?

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Most regulars are extremely friendly with all of us at the restaurant.

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Does this happen more at nicer eateries or the shittier ones?

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ALL, every single restaurant. Every restaurant.

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I do believe wage stagnation is a real problem, but we can thank the global economy for that. Companies have consolidated and gotten larger, these corporations outsource more work overseas than you think. Even in the early 2000s, this wasn't even considered, but now it is widespread, and not only are these workers willing to work slave hours, they are willing to do it for less pay. This has had a big effect on the country that people don't talk about enough.

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This point gets talked about a lot here, but most women work professional jobs now, we transitioned into a dual income household world. However, the equilibrium is skewed. High earning women still seek out high earning men. This has exacerbated the wealth gap tremendously. 2 middle class earners will live a great life together, but 1 middle class earner who grew up and went to school with the others, and maybe even got better grades, but he married a part time teacher and they can barely make ends meet. These are the people struggling immensely.

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My last point, on the other hand, everybody wants to own a home, but nobody wants to the do the required maintenance that comes along with owning a home. So they hire the dwindling population of trade workers to do it. Trade workers charge more money now, supply and demand. Part time teacher Karen thinks she is better off than plumber Jim, but then she receives the bill and thinks she's getting ripped off. How do people afford this, she wonders.

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There are a lot of things working against the average American employee now, things that didn't exist when their parents were growing up. There is also more pressure to be wealthy and keep up with the Joneses. I think colleges and universities have failed us. They sold out for profit, and left our young people unprepared for the new economy. Going to school and getting a job at a big company is no longer a guaranteed path to success. I'd like to see more young people being prepared to go into business on their own. Technical degrees need to be pushed way more than liberal arts degrees. Trade schools need to be more respected.

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Absolutely, 100% nailed it! If more people understood that good plumbers in a mid-sized city are making over $200K/annually the trade schools would get a lot more respect. :cheers:

LOCK EM UP!

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This story is fascinating and is easily one of the most important things happening at the intersection of AI and politics right now.

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The story is being kept out of the main stream media.

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Twenty minutes after the WSJ story drops, Jacob posts on X about how he's concerned that AI could kill us all in a few years.

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He's referring to ASI - artificial superintelligence and is 100% correct.

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It just so happens Bernie Sanders has a bill already written to ban artificial superintelligence (ASI) and to create a new federal agency to protect the public from the dangers of AI. This bill was announced just one week ago on September 3rd

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I'm definitely not a fan of Bernie Sanders but someone has to be the adult in the room. We (the human race) are absolutely not prepared for the repercussions due to the developmental mismanagement without extreme safe guards in place while we continue this advancement of ASI. The lack of oversight with stringent model safe guards will lead us to the most extreme case of negligence with a total reckless disregard for the safety of others (the entire human race).

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place a temporary pause on "advanced AI" until a new federal regulator exists and has issued safety rules and a model-review process

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This needs to be addressed immediately. As of today, we can put a pause on ASI. If it keeps advancing and we are still discussing the topic, - it will be too late to do anything.

The sad part of this is that Elon is the only person knowledgeable enough that I can trust for oversight. IF we ever get there, the person designated
for oversight, instantly will be the most powerful person in the world!

Everyone should listen to the latest Joe Rogen Podcast with Daniel Kokotajlo, former governace researcher at Open AI. His role at Open AI focused on scenario planning. He discusses Super Intelligence, AI swarms that setup forums for Ai Agents. I wish I had a dollar for every time Rogen said, "that scares the frick out of me".

We are in a world wide race to advanced AI. The USA claims we are ahead of everyone. China seems to be advancing over us, but who really knows.

The #1 issue: There is governmental over sight. But on top of that, you can't slow down and let China win the race. Secondly, the government doesn't truly understand the extreme details of this technology.

AI will be well beyond our control by 2030. AI agents will "pull the wool over our eyes" in a heartbeat.

youtube link Joe Rogen - Daniel Kokotajlo

That was the first game ever that I had internet access.

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Do you think they can’t get in if you lock the door

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Are you trolling or really that out of touch??

They walk the hood, pull on door handles.
If it is locked, they move on to the next one.
If it is not locked, they take everything.