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Think about this: if coronaviruses were so easy to vaccinate against that we could do a crash course for one brand new virus type, then why is the common cold so common?
Yes, vaccination will be a challenge.
If I were a bureaucrat throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at this vaccine initiative, I would be royally pissed that only 1 percent of trial participants are black. AAs are getting slammed hard by COVID due to location and cultural behaviors.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)“Took the most perfect double-tapered shit I’ve ever had in my life.”
That’s a keeper.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I don’t follow this sort of thing much and couldn’t have picked Chrissy out of a lineup, but that’s some funny stuff right there.
I was running some errands with my oldest (16) and he and I got to talking about what it was like when I was a teenager vs now. We concluded that the guys talk a LOT less about girls now, that locker room talk isn’t what it used to be, and that smart teenagers these days know that everything they do is being recorded. That last one is kinda sad if you ask me. Some of my best memories would likely get me in some trouble if they were tweeted at the time and findable now.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=1460]If football becomes a pay if you play sport, the rest of college athletics is doomed. Really interesting in a Title IX environment. Who do you pay on the women’s side? Hoops and what else?[/quote]
It would never fly because of title IX wrong-ness and also greed, but why not just pay based on the net revenue generated by the sport after its individual expenses and reasonable overhead?
If a women’s sport sustains itself and generates a profit, then pay.
It really isn’t that hard but we have to create a world of equal outcomes when the value of the input is vastly different between men and women.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Love it.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I would think it would be very hard to walk back from the woman of color commitment.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I should have edited my comment on the revenue share. Instead of saying it was “ridiculous” I should have said that it was entirely reasonable but will be viewed as ridiculous by the NCAA and conference. I wrote too quickly.
I totally believe that big time football should be spun out of universities and treated as for profit clubs. All this stuff at Stanford about the athletic department not sharing the endowment essentially already does that. Football is one big for profit entertainment operation that the university reserves student admissions slots for because those students enrich the student population and experience, and they bring donors together. Just because the football teams profits are used to subsidize a bunch of other sports doesn’t mean it isn’t for profit.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Good on ’em. The revenue share bit is ridiculous but the health insurance thing I fully endorse. The NCAA is subsidized heavily by private and I’m sure public health insurance. Honestly I’d say for football players the time limit should be more like a decade, but that’ll never happen.
A huge number of issues started to crop up for me once I lost the extreme skeletal stability that heavy muscles provided. At 28 I suddenly couldn’t climb stairs because as my legs lost muscles they became more “normally” aligned and that caused a ton of bone on bone issues. Subsequent surgery cleaned some of it up with an admonition by the doctor that I had a “60-year old knee and the activity level of a 28-year old.”
Now, is that the NCAA’s responsibility, the schools’, or the players’? We’ll never know. But I can guarantee you that the school doesn’t want an additional 6 X 25 people (assuming that ~25 people leave the football program every year) to provide insurance for in steady state. At today’s premiums that’s probably another 1.2 million bucks a year in round numbers. Multiply that by all member schools for the NCAA, and you can see the issue.
It’s all about the benjamins.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=1423]If Biden goes with Warren, how long will the news cycle question the absence of color as opposed to the Warren resume/qualifications. Is Geraldine Ferraro part deux exciting?[/quote]
Absence of color? She’s a friggen native american, you racist!
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=1414]
Yuck. Re douche bag discussion. Fwliw, I associate douchebagery with more of a goofy/effete disposition rather than bombastic a la Orange one. More of a B male persona. Open season on white guys.
e.g., Beto O’Rourke, douchebag.[/quote]
good example. Beto is definitely the personification of douchebag. Trump is cut more from the “asshole” mold, but as everybody knows am asshole can still be wildly effective so we wont see that as the slur applied.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)No. This will be characterized as an opportunity for “dialogue” and a “teachable moment” about how we all need to “do better.”
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Yeah I messed up on name. Sorry about that. Not sure why I recalled neodymium while responding.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=1381]You are arguing the rules (my bad for mentioning them), whereas your original question simply asked if it was fair if one state made the rules for the rest of the country if they had 99% of the population. I simply took your extreme example to its logical conclusion — from 99% to 99.9+%. I thought it was “we the people”. I am sure the states argument was meant to protect the rights of the people in those states, not some soil and minerals. When the imbalance becomes so extreme those folks end up as oligarchs for all practical purposes. If they were all communists and the other 99% were Breitbart conservatives, I’m going to guess there would suddenly be some new interpretations of the meaning of “states rights”.[/quote]
Actually I’m pretty sure I made fun of arguing the rules, and then argued the practical principles. Apologies if you missed that.
While looking at this from the perspective of “what if all the bad peoples are in the minority and this gives them power” is a fair interpretation, in real life that’s awfully naive. The more likely scenario is that a large state, like California, gains too much clout on an issue that hits small or rural states. Think about water rights as an example. Would it be “fair” for Californians to vote themselves rights to all of the excess water in the west?
Maybe to make it a better hypothetical, make Nevada the heavy. Would it be fair for Nevada to vote itself all of California’s water, or should california have at least a say in the matter.
Im telling you, this union of states is important. Local government is super important, and to supersede it by saying that the bicameral legislature is unfair is to ignore a lot of history where minorities and rural folks have been crushed by political elites from faraway places. Is that “unfair” to the individual voting in a presidential election from a large state? Perhaps, but only because they can’t see the checks and balances in play on their own likelihood to mob up and crush the distant, rural unknown folks.
Maybe a better discussion is this, Neo: what would be a better system? Are you arguing for direct democracy?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)- [quote quote=1376]Even if they only had the Senate it seems absurd. The other 300M+ people effectively couldn’t pass any legislation, budgets, etc. without the consent of most of those 98 people. They could not appoint anyone to the courts either without the approval from the oligarchs.[/quote]
Starting to feel like a debate about baseball rules. It’s absurd that your first two foul balls are strikes but you can foul a hundred more times and not strike out, but them’s the rules.
In practical terms our federal government is built to give some weight to states over people. It’s just the way it is. That actually helps protect minority populations, but objectively. Since we have established via the civil war that union is for life, then I’d suggest that the weighting of states is even more important.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)- [quote quote=1376]Even if they only had the Senate it seems absurd. The other 300M+ people effectively couldn’t pass any legislation, budgets, etc. without the consent of most of those 98 people. They could not appoint anyone to the courts either without the approval from the oligarchs.[/quote]
Starting to feel like a debate about baseball rules. It’s absurd that your first two foul balls are strikes but you can foul a hundred more times and not strike out, but them’s the rules.
In practical terms our federal government is built to give some weight to states over people. It’s just the way it is. That actually helps protect minority populations, but objectively. Since we have established via the civil war that union is for life, then I’d suggest that the weighting of states is even more important.
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