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Don't think there was any left at all, but any doubts we'll have a rookie starter next season have been erased.

2 minutes ago, AZDave said:

However, how many of these coaches and players would have come here for an inexperienced new head coach. I am starting to believe that if we hired any other coach this transformation wouldn’t have happened. The winds are changing in DC and hopefully we get back to where we were as a proud franchise where people and players want to come to play and win.

Yeah, I definitely think it would have been tempered. 

The fact that so many free agents want to come here....brings a tear to my eye. You know, a thug tear. But a tear nonetheless.

Successful liftoff!

Hopefully they actually try to land it this time.

edit:

lol, looks like another nope (at least for the booster) *sigh*

edit #2:

Complete success for the ship though! Nice job.

On 3/11/2024 at 9:13 PM, The Evil Genius said:

 

From what I understand we are out of it now and are expected to stay drought free until at least 2025. 

Yeah, last year pretty much ended it. This year just ensured it stayed ended.

**

I was going to say, how is below avg. temps a concern, but yeah, it is time for stuff to start blooming. Models are not in agreement right now on how cold and how long. Best guess is micro shots. Very cold for a couple days. Then warm for a couple days. Cold. Warm. etc.

1 hour ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said:

I think by the time ai gets deployed like this ai will want to disable the enemies AI first. Once both AIs are destroyed the they won’t be able to choose nukes…

This isn't talked about enough. AI vs AI warfare, with us lowly humans caught in the middle. Who's our Neo?

52 minutes ago, The Evil Genius said:

I'm still surprised this isn't a bigger story for people. 

 

 

They did just find coke in the White House recently, which magically belonged to no one.

I think this is one of the accepted but not talked about things in Washington politics. They're all high, all the time. 🫠

15 hours ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

Musk spilling Illuminati secrets over email?

For shame!

Only a matter of time

On 2/16/2024 at 8:53 PM, bowhunter said:

Cowherd is either an idiot or selling clicks. I'm a loyalist to a fault, and although I do not want any form of "tank" season to occur, I think winning the division with a 500 record hurts more than it helps. Dropping back 8 draft slots simply because we eeked out the division title only puts us 8 slots further away from premium talent to round out the roster.

We have enough draft picks in this draft and enough cap space, that if we won the division with a .500 record, it shouldn't hurt at all. That is of course, we do this off-season right.

Look at perennial good teams. They don't rely solely on high draft picks...because they never get them. We can round out the roster now without relying heavily on getting another high draft pick next year...

12 hours ago, WilberMarshall said:

 

Just have a winning record against our division rivals.

 

I'm good for just a win 😔

26 minutes ago, Est.1974 said:

The Bears moving on from Fields and then dropping to #2 isn’t that dumb. It’s probably the second most likely scenario in the draft, after them staying put and taking Williams.

24 minutes ago, Warhead36 said:

I'm not saying the idea of it is dumb. I'm saying the people just spouting random stuff with no real substance is dumb.

But...it is kinda dumb.

Washington would hold all the cards. The Commanders would just say no and force the Bears to pick him with the #1.

There is no rational reason for Washington to make that trade. Unless there Bears are going to give up the #1 and future picks to go down one spot? Sounds unlikely.

If, which I highly doubt we would, offered something to Kirk...he's not a rookie, he can and would probably say no, lol

Why would he want to come here, to be replaced in a year? Or may not even start at all.

I can't think of any reason why he would want to come here.

6 minutes ago, Voice_of_Reason said:

WHY HAS THE INTERNET FAILED ME!

 

I desperately need a gif of James T. Kirk doing his famous "Flying Leg Kick" from the original series.  Why can't I find this?  INTERNET FAIL!

This?

Should this go in the Musk thread?

Musk's Turn to Sue

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Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over what he says is a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker's founding aims of benefiting humanity rather than pursuing profits.

In a lawsuit filed at San Francisco Superior Court, billionaire Musk said that when he bankrolled OpenAI's creation, he secured an agreement with Altman and Greg Brockman, the president, to keep the AI company as a nonprofit that would develop technology for the benefit of the public.

Under its founding agreement, OpenAI would also make its code open to the public instead of walling it off for any private company's gains, the lawsuit says.

However, by embracing a close relationship with Microsoft, OpenAI and its top executives have set that pact “aflame” and are “perverting” the company's mission, Musk alleges in the lawsuit.

OpenAI declined to comment on the lawsuit Friday.

“OpenAI, Inc. has been transformed into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft,” the lawsuit filed Thursday says. “Under its new Board, it is not just developing but is actually refining an AGI to maximize profits for Microsoft, rather than for the benefit of humanity."

.....

- Money - biggest scam in the history of humanity. Shouldn't be confusing lol, but to specify - our current form of currency. I'm fully aware it's not this simple, but it is basically based off of nothing. A non-value based currency is a scam.

- Car registration fees - beyond stupid and absolutely pointless

- I think this has been mentioned, but the 5 day work week has been proven time and time again not to be worth it and a scam - https://abcnews.go.com/Business/4-day-workweek-work-companies-share-results-after/story?id=107635577

Alright, bear with me. I couldn't find one, so I had to create a tin foil hat for this one. And to make it clear, I am creating a conspiracy theory. But, it's flawless so far 👌 (still building)

This thread is absolutely fascinating. And certainly not unique in it's views on Christianity in America, and Christianity in general.

But how did we get here? Whoever has brought us to this point is certainly playing the long game. This has been decades in the making (if not longer)

I mean, if any...ANY...of the stuff said about Christianity in here is said about any other religion, you will be labeled ____phobic, or having ___phobia or ___ism.

There are many other religions, including at least one of the big ones, which are magnitudes more intolerant, repressive, with a higher penchant for violence than Christianity, but could you imagine someone calling them out on it? You would be labeled so fast! Not so with Christianity. Why is that?

If you slaughter a few Christians for their religion, it's barely news. It's a "oh no. Anyway..." moment. Still digging in to this. Where did this slope begin?

The other side of this is a bit easier to dig into. How America Christianity is harming itself and, by it's actions, inviting the persecution it fears. More importantly, how American Christianity is barely a shell of true Christianity - 'true' as in what Christ (and the OGs) actually taught.

Money and power will forever be humanity's downfall, or rather the insatiable need for both. Organized religion is no different. We can thank the Romans for getting this train really rolling - the intermingling of religion and politics. Both government and religion grab a taste of the money and power they seek. Protestantism kinda sorta shied away from that, only to fully hop on board late 20th century - at least here in America. Lessons from the Romans were not learned. There's no way mesh the two without compromise. So you slip a compromise here. Slip one there. Another one here. And that compromise leads to distortion. Distortion leads to confusion. Confusion just leaves a mess. Meanwhile the original message is lost, collecting dust somewhere.

And because confusion reigns, others are looking at this monstrosity like...'What? No. I don't like that. I don't like that at all.'

What passes itself off as Christianity in America has become detestable. So, you know, of course we can speak out against it.

Now the conspiracy part!

The folks who did this were genius. Evil, but genius. So, in the speaking out against the fake Christianity, they tested the waters. A little at first. Splashing in a dash of intolerance. Testing the public's response. No real blow back. So through the years, they splashed in a little more and a little more. Now, the folks who claim the most tolerance have been programed to have select intolerance. And because of that programing, should anyone ever find and present true Christianity, it's an automatic rejection. No one's going to hear it.

It really is genius.

Combined with the fact that we've come to tolerate violence.

Where does this all lead??

😂😂

^^ Absolutely no possible way that is by accident.

18 minutes ago, WashingtonRedWolves said:

I would love to take barkley from the giants and have him take over for Brob completely

Take over for BRob as back up to CRod?

Sure.

But, looks like we're going to be passing it 60 times a game, so definitely not worth spending FA money on a RB.

21 minutes ago, Destino said:

Anyone know if all these failed or flawed attempts to land on the moon will have an impact on the Artemis timeline? As I understood it in phase 1 a whole bunch of equipment was to land in the moon before advancing to the crewed phases. Doesn’t seem like that part of things is going well 

I don't think these attempts will have much of any affect, as these are all under CLPS - Commerical Lunar Payload Services - and some fails were expected...

VIPER though, planned for later this year, is the biggest (contracted) so far, and I believe most tied to Artemis (they're sending a rover which could be used by future manned crews.) We need that one to go smooth.

3 hours ago, Bang said:

The Fat ****ing orange guy is a Russian asset. He hasn't even really tried to hide it.

And the biggest problem (at least with this, lol) is that he doesn't even know. To purposely be one would require a certain level of intelligence that he has not yet displayed.

Frontline has many amazing documentaries.

One of them, Putin and the Presidents, gives a pretty good run down of how each of our past few presidents (from Clinton to Biden) have had to deal with this man. Which is insane considering Bush and Obama were two termers.

Putin, being KGB, knew how to play Trump like a fiddle. Though I imagine it didn't require much.

In the meantime, over at Google, they had to stop 'ol Gemini. Well, the creating images of people portion. 

Just a tad too 'woke'

😂

6 minutes ago, 88Comrade2000 said:

Simple solution, amend the constitution to where the president serves only one term  of 5 years.  Then that way you will get different people in government. 5 years is enough for a president to do what they want.  Rarely does anything significant get done in a president’s second term; especially in the modern era of politics.

I'd have to further digest the ramifications, but I think I'd even be down for 6 years. Since you're not inaugurated until after the new year anyway.

But yeah, it's insanely difficult to pass a constitutional amendment under normal circumstances. Could you imagine trying in the modern political environment 😄

19 hours ago, PokerPacker said:

Who's not letting you decide?  There's a primary.  Biden won in a state that he wasn't even on the ballot in.

lol, technically correct. But remember, it's career suicide to challenge the incumbent.

As an example -  Joe Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt wins in 2064, from then until 2068, no other person presents themselves, or even attempts to be a legitimate alternative candidate because it was already decided once he won in 2064, just go with Joe.

Yes, you can technically write someone in during the Primary and say you're deciding to vote for someone else. But your vote is absolutely meaningless as no other real options have been put forth.

16 hours ago, PeterMP said:

 

So when that person did something you didn't like or was close to Trump in the polls you could complain how the party picked Biden's possible replacements and how it wasn't good fair and the people should pick?

 

(I'm a little confused about the Trump conversation.  People did win against Trump.  They've lost.  People didn't run against Biden because they likely made the calculation that if they did they would lose.  The people that ran against Trump likely did so because they actually thought they could win (i.e. that Trump would be weak enough with his history and court cases to be beaten, and it appears they were wrong.)

I do believe that maybe the wrong post was quoted? Sincerest apologies if I'm missing something.

For the first part, I'm not seeing how that matches up. What I said in that post was that there shouldn't be an all or nothing approach when it come to the incumbent. This is irrespective of party. There should always be quality, knowledgeable, inspiring leaders in the pipeline.

In the case with Biden, it was known 10 years ago he was old. It would have been wise to have someone under his wing, or just in general, learning the ropes. Developing the relationships. Becoming that inspiring leader who could step up and step in with no lag in the quality that is presented.

For the second part, I'm a little confused as well, lol.

I talked about Trump in 2020, as an example of how atrocious it was that no other legitimate alternative candidate was available. 1) Because again, once they win, it's basically hands off for the next 8 years (no matter how bad they are.) and 2) There was the fear of alienating a chunk of the base, putting the party above the well-being of the people.

No bump for Sora?

Nothing is Real Anymore

Another link with more general info (on Sora and the University of Penn. being the first Ivy League to offer an undergrad in AI)

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/ai-and-you-openais-sora-previews-text-to-video-future-first-ivy-league-ai-degree/

10 hours ago, Captain Wiggles said:

The real problem with this picture, is how many people actually pull in instead of backing in

Ugh!

I'm sure we'll get a random day or two in mid-late March or early April where it snows for no reason, but yeah, for the DMV, it's a safe assumption that winter is just about done.

There are no signs of any sustained cold air any time soon.