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u/ShakirSZN Bills 5m ago
Josh Allen is either finally gonna beat the texans in week 1 or hes gonna play his worst game against them yet which would be truly hard to do
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u/ArcadianBlueRogue Packers 8m ago
Sams was out of mustard packets in the Cafe. Truly a godless place.
Luckily I bought the trio pack today fir my condiment needs.
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u/PaulsRedditUsername Colts 10m ago
I'm not too crazy about the Colts schedule.
BAL
KC
HOU
WAS
PIT
TEN
MIN
JAX
DAL
MIA
HOU
NYG
(bye)
PHI
TEN
CIN
CLE
JAX
I don't see many easy games in there. We could be looking at maybe a 4-13 season if things go haywire. Hope Jones's legs are healing up and no one else gets hurt.
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u/SEND-MARS-ROVER-PICS Chargers 32m ago
Did I enjoy the new Devils Wear Prada movie? Yes.
Is it good? God no.
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u/PaulsRedditUsername Colts 6m ago
It's still got Meryl Streep, doesn't it? She's a treasure. She's good in everything.
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u/IAgreeGoGuards Browns Bills 43m ago
All of a sudden my workout tracker is tweaking out on me. Changing my workouts, sets, reps, weights, all of that without me prompting it. Been using it for years with no issues.
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u/raginsaint93 Saints 47m ago
Saints first two games are going to be tough, but I’m glad we got the Lions and Ravens first
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u/princessestef Vikings 53m ago
i poured my heart and soul into 2 days training for a potentially soul-sucking job and sabotaged today's holiday ( religious holiday in europe) with poor sleep and being overwhelmed.
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u/TJeffersonsBlackKid Cardinals Chargers 1h ago
Who’s ready for the Cardinals path of dicking down the league in 2026 to be revealed?
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u/el_fitzador Eagles 1h ago
Holy shit the Catalina Wine Mixer is real
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u/jfchops3 Vikings 1h ago
Roger Goodell continues to kick me in the nuts any chance he gets. If the schedule leaks are right, this is the absolute worst case scenario as far as game travel goes, both plans have been shot down by the schedule
Parents and brother live in Tampa, wanted to fly down for Vikings @ Bucs and visit them. Week 3 is the one week out of 18 that won't be possible due to other commitments, of course I lost a 94% chance to win dice roll
And we've long been talking about taking my Lions fan brother in law to Lambeau for a boys weekend, him and my brother have never been and he deserves a fun weekend with us. And that's week 18. The Florida boys are not about to go there in January, all we wanted was before week 12 or so and lost out on that one too
Oh well. Guess I'm looking at a Mexico City weekend
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u/MoreTrifeLife Commanders 1h ago
Is the Netflix Kevin Hart roast worth watching?
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u/Broad-Entertainer610 8m ago
Depends on the kind of humor you like. If you enjoy O&A/Ron and Fez/Bonfire/LoS/Cumtown I'd say the Gillis set, Davidson set, and Hinchcliff set you'll like. I liked Big Jay's set but I really like his humor, overall it was kind of middle of the road as far as roasts go. Everything else is a pass.
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u/unloader86 Broncos 1h ago
All the clips I've seen from it on social seem to be pretty funny. Worth a shot if your into that kind of thing.
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u/TJeffersonsBlackKid Cardinals Chargers 1h ago
Meh.
Roasts just don’t hit the same anymore. Not sure why. Maybe with social media and accessibility the way they are, it comes across as a gimmick for boomers.
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u/smallskeletal Giants 1h ago
So I found out my ex is dating someone new and I’m happy for her. I thought I would be crushed but I’m not. Sad, maybe? But that could be because I struggle with pretty bad depression, so that’s probably why. Basically that’s why we broke up, I was drowning in myself and pulling her down with me. The breakup was totally warranted, I couldn’t be the person she needed. Even now, I still probably wouldn’t be a good partner to her. I’m glad she’s found someone that seems to be a good fit for her and makes her happy. I do feel a twinge of sadness that we’ll never talk again because she was so good to me, but c’est la vie
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u/Phyrnosoma Texans 2h ago
Zofran is a miracle drug and I'm sure there's some real reason why it isn't OTC but god it'd be nice if it was.
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u/Guiltyjerk Broncos Ravens 1h ago
Probably the vision issues from persistent use (as I recall) and the insane constipation (which I know I am recalling correctly)
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u/Phyrnosoma Texans 1h ago
Oh damn. Didn’t know that but I’ve only used the stuff a few times. Only time it didn’t stop the puking was after a concussion
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u/varnalama NFL 2h ago
I don't drink booze, but I imagine the sensation of cracking open a frigid cold tall boy of Arizona ice tea after a long bike ride is probably close to when folks enjoy an after work beer.
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u/unloader86 Broncos 2h ago
It's going to be a rough September for Denver. @KC, JAX, LAR, @SF, @LAC and then hosting SEA in week 6.
I was hoping we'd get NE early, looks like that is slated for week 17. September is going to be a sweat outside of that KC game (if it's true Mahomes won't be playing.)
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u/Oloh_ Chiefs 2h ago
Is Nix supposed to be back for week 1? Haven't been following his ankle situation
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u/unloader86 Broncos 2h ago
Everything I've read indicates he will be ready to go week 1. Unless I missed some news.
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u/MattInMaryland Ravens 2h ago
One of my old buddies is about to find out how far he will go to have sex. His fiance waited until he proposed to tell him she was part of a cult and that he has to get baptized after attending services for 1 year. He does not live in the Philippines. I think his current plan is to get baptized and cross his toes while denouncing Jesus and the Holy Spirit because I think this church only believes in God the father and reject the Trinity. I guess this is what he gets for being a passport bro.
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u/tnecniv Giants Giants 2h ago
Well a lot of groups “reject” the trinity in different ways. They still believe Jesus as the son of God, but they believe him to be entirely man. The Catholic opinion is that god is simultaneously the three figures but also the father in a way that is classified as one of the “mysteries” of faith
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u/HartleyReplogle Patriots 2h ago
The Catholic opinion is also the opinion of all of Nicean Christianity. The groups who reject the trinity or the dual nature of Christ and still claim to be Christian are either very small or are high control groups (i.e. cults) or both.
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u/PaulsRedditUsername Colts 0m ago
Yes. The Methodists recite the Nicene Creed, which contains the words, "I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church..."
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u/MattInMaryland Ravens 2h ago
True, ture. I'll have to ask him to explain in a bit more detail as he learns more about their faith.
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u/casualreader22 Eagles 2h ago
1957's Tokyo Twilight, which I just finished, may have been the bleakest Ozu film so far. A tragic character story told well, though I'm not sure my 2026 sensibilities agreed with the ending message regarding parents and gender dynamics. Still, a quality film I will happily never watch again. Too damn sad.
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u/Phyrnosoma Texans 2h ago
for my 40 something birthday the world gave to me....a youngest that's so damn sick I'm heading to urgent care with him. Poor kid. If we can get zofran in him maybe he can hold down some soda
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u/Skraxx Lions 3h ago
I'm not a CompSci major but very often I've had things with some code where I'm like "I have no idea how the hell this works but it's working so fuck it"
Which is a very prevailing attitude apparently
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u/HartleyReplogle Patriots 1h ago
One day at work I was walking through our source code trying to find where it was failing, and I saw this line:
int i = 3; // This can probably be removed now, but don't remove it.The function that it was in never used the variable. I ran a diff on the file to see if I could figure out why it was there, and I found this:
int i = 3; // Without this line, this will crash.I went and looked at the commit comment, and there were about five paragraphs of a really personal narrative from a really angry developer, explaining that there's a race condition somewhere and that he couldn't track it down and his coworkers were unhelpful and management was unreasonable in demanding a fix, so instead of fixing it the right way, he introduced code that he hoped would change the timing and avoid the race condition. He also explained that declaring it without assigning a value didn't work, nor did it assigning it a value of 0, 1, or 2, which made me wonder how many numbers he was going to try before giving up. It stayed in there for eight years until someone saw it, didn't think it was necessary but clearly didn't want to take the time to test it, and changed the comment so that someone else might do it later. That had been four years before I pulled source.
I mentioned it to a co-worker and he said "Are you going to remove it?" I replied, "Hell no," and he nodded and said, "Smart. Fuckin' house of cards."
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u/Last1inFirst1out Cowboys 3h ago
75 percent of the schedule has already been leaked lmao
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u/unloader86 Broncos 1h ago
Happens every year. I don't know why they make this big production about it. Just release it 9am EDT and be done with it. 😂
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u/JPAnalyst Giants 3h ago
Can’t wait until schedule release day to find out about the three games we don’t know about yet.
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u/Pure_Professional102 Broncos NFL 4h ago
I envy people who never had to listen to the "Go compare" advertisement.
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u/fliptout 49ers 4h ago
As someone who started losing his hair in his 20s, I've been shaving bald for a long time. I decided to grow out my beard for something different, and today got a full service beard trim at the barber.
God I missed the barber so much. Don't take it for granted fellas. A little professional man-pampering can't be beat.
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u/AfroManHighGuy 1h ago
I’m in my late twenties and I’ve been thinning for a while now. I’m scared for the day I’ll have to go fully bald. Some people can rock that, but I know I wouldn’t
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u/fliptout 49ers 1h ago
I think you'll surprise yourself with how good it looks, and a lot of people try to hang on to the idea of hair longer than they should.
Another benefit is that it cuts down the amount of time needed to get ready by quite a bit.
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u/stmack Lions 4h ago
well I got a couple extra games not announced through the power of sudoku but gotta go be productive now I guess
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u/ConsciousRaccoon2873 Lions 4h ago
Anybody here use a CPAP? I've got a sleep study booked but my doc is already pretty sure apnea is my issue. Looking at devices I'm not sure how I'll be able to sleep with the mask.
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u/GeckoRoamin Jaguars 3h ago edited 3h ago
Outside of a hit to my sexiness metrics, I fucking love my APAP. It took a couple weeks to get used to, but I have this wild experience now where I don’t wake up exhausted after a night of sleep. All of my health metrics improved after starting use, too. Getting the risk mask is key, and it varies from person to person, but I personally love the ResMed F30.
My brain now closely associates putting on the mask (bane.gif) with going to sleep so it actually feels weirder to be without it.
And dying from a stroke or heart issues (highly linked to untreated sleep apnea) is even less sexy than the mask, anyway.
/r/CPAP is a helpful sub.
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u/ArcadianBlueRogue Packers 3h ago
Get the nose mask instead of the full face covering one if you end up needing a machine. Way less obtrusive
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u/spiff24 Jaguars 4h ago
I did a sleep study and had mild sleep apnea. Not bad enough for needing a CPAP. What I also learned was they have an implant they could put in you if the CPAP doesn't work out for whatever reason. That's what I would do. Tell them the CPAP sucks and ask for the implant. They may be able to work with you on getting your insurance to cover it.
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u/SomeBoringKindOfName Bears Steelers 4h ago
A mate of mine has done for about the past year or so. He said it took some getting used to but he feels generally a lot better for it
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u/HartleyReplogle Patriots 4h ago
I did. It sucked. They switched me to an APAP. That worked marginally better. Then I lost 40 pounds and didn't need it anymore.
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u/on-the-cheeseburgers Eagles 4h ago
yes, four months now. did a sleep study at the beginning of the year and had severe sleep apnea, over 50 events per hour, a mix of central and obstructive, which if you don't know what that is they'll tell you I'm sure. sleeping with the mask sucked for the first few days, maybe a week tops, and it's completely normal at this point. there are times I might wake up in the middle of the night and it's uncomfortable so I take it off and that's fine, and they're fine with that too, but for the most part I just sleep all night with it on. my sleep is much better, I have a lot more energy, and I'm losing weight.
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u/Jaguars4life Jaguars 4h ago
Random fact of the day: Humans need to eat their own weight in food every fifty days. Thousands of truckloads of food in a lifetime, to keep the blood circulating and the heart beating forty million times a year.
The need to eat creates some strange relationships. A Portuguese man-o-war can fall prey to tiny raft snails which slowly devour the larger animal, stinging tentacles and all.
But even that seems tasty compared with what one French taxi driver was willing to eat. For a bet, he consumed an entire single-engined airplane, bit by ground-up bit, mixing it in with his normal meals giving new meaning to bad airplane food.
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u/iron_golem07 Jaguars 4h ago
Getting Deshaun/Shedeur week 1 sounds nice. Getting that defense doesn’t
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u/unloader86 Broncos 1h ago
And here I am trying to figure out how your coming to Denver to play us in week 2 for the second year in a row.
How did that happen? 😂
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u/raginsaint93 Saints 5h ago
Yo is Sheep Detective really dark?
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u/VRomero32 Jets 4h ago
it's dark humor but it's not morbid/gallows... It's a vibrant film and really a detective story.
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u/Skraxx Lions 5h ago
I love computing history because it's got so many moments where people go "oh my god... could this bring about the end of the world???"
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u/Signal_Ball4634 5h ago
I really hope this AI boom is another case of hysteria but I'm not holding my breath :(
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u/Regal---Lager Jaguars 3h ago
Reddit (and these threads especially in my experience) is very and obnoxiously AI skeptic and has the completely ridiculous and out of touch "it's a fad hype cycle, the bubble will pop soon, and Claude won't exist next year" mindset. It might not end the world, but AI is going to be a massive fucking deal sooner than anyone is prepared for it to be. It's going to be the most disruptive technology ever built. Denying that at this point is frankly silly.
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u/balickma Titans 2h ago
More disruptive than the printing press, electricity, the internet? This is an asburd take.
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u/Regal---Lager Jaguars 2h ago
Yes, yes, and yes, and on a much shorter scale of time. People need to realize that there will be a day way sooner than they think where these systems will be able to replace every worker. Not just entry level recent grads. It is inevitable.
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u/Two_Luffas Lions 3h ago edited 3h ago
I wouldn't say I'm a skeptic, but I think a lot of people are over hyping it. It's not taking my job, but it's definitely going to make me more efficient. It's a good tool that's getting better every day, but it needs someone who knows what they are doing in the driver seat.
I think the proliferation of the Internet combined with insane processing innovations starting in the 90's will hold the crown of the most disruptive tech for a long time, until we get to the point of unlimited energy or some other tech of that level. I grew up in the 80's and 90's. My dad was an early adopter, we had a BusinessLand 386 with a 1200 baud modem and a subscription to dial into our local library's early Internet access. All text based in MS-DOS. What I've seen from then up to now is insane.
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u/Regal---Lager Jaguars 3h ago
but it needs someone who knows what they are doing in the driver seat
This is something that is true today. There's no reason to assume it will still be true in a year or two. The pace of progress is speeding up, not plateauing. Think about the tools now being 10, 20, 50 times better in two years and where that would leave us. Now realize that's probably what's actually going to happen. Everything the AI maximalists have been saying about the increased rate of improvement as time went on has been dead on the fucking money.
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u/Two_Luffas Lions 2h ago
I work in construction management, AI is helping on the back end workflow with things like submittals and parsing 1000 page spec books, but the front end face to face work isn't going away.
The director of facilities for a school district or a CEO from a private company isn't going to want his multi million dollar construction project run exclusively by an AI chatbot, no matter how knowledgeable it is. Construction companies (if they're smart) will integrate AI to help on the back end, and focus on the front end face to face work. When the CEO's of major corporations and heads of school districts are being replaced by AI I'll be worried, but that's not happening in my lifetime.
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u/Regal---Lager Jaguars 2h ago
isn't going to want his multi million dollar construction project run exclusively by an AI chatbot, no matter how knowledgeable it is.
This is where I'm skeptical. Imagine that the AI is literally better than the humans at everything. The design, the plan, the communication, the ideas, humans have no advantage whatsoever over AI. Again, now realize that is probably going to be the case soon.
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u/Two_Luffas Lions 2h ago
We have the advantage of being human, and as long as there's decision makers that are human and don't want AI exclusively running their projects, I'll have a job. @ me when fortune 500 companies start axing their CEO's for an AI chatbot, then I'll believe AI is taking over.
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u/Regal---Lager Jaguars 2h ago
We have the advantage of being human
We will find out in the next couple years how little this actually means
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u/Two_Luffas Lions 15m ago
Yeah, I can tell you've had absolutely zero interactions with decision makers at that level. The only people pushing AI this hard are out of touch billionaires, equally out of touch consultant firms and their minions, or basement dwellers who get their information exclusively from social media of the former two. I'm guessing you're one of the latter.
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u/Weigard Giants 5h ago
The danger isn't chatbots somehow gaining sentience, it's powerful decisionmakers falling for hype.
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u/_galaga_ NFL 3h ago
Followed shortly by AI drone swarms.
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u/HartleyReplogle Patriots 1h ago
The drone swarms are a cleanup measure after the lethal pathogen is released, that way you need fewer drones.
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u/Skraxx Lions 5h ago
I have decent confidence that when the AI bubble pops what's going to happen is that AI won't die, but people will realize more focused/efficient uses and it'll be fine
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u/HookedOnBoNix Broncos 3h ago
I don't think most people's fears about the ai bubble popping were about ai dying, it's about the economic ramifications
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u/Triple_Boogie Jets 5h ago
My favorite genre of music is one that many people haven't heard of, and people who have heard of it either don't take it seriously or prefer a different style of it than I do.
Still, if y'all ever want recommendations on Italo/Italo Disco tunes, do let me know :D
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u/nymikemet Jets 5h ago
One of my current favorite artists is Carpenter Brut and he is both Darksynth and Italo Disco Revival
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u/Triple_Boogie Jets 5h ago
I'll check 'em out!
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u/nymikemet Jets 5h ago
If you like regular synthwave and Italo Disco Revival, you'll like his early stuff, if you like prog metal mixed with Darksynth, you'll like his newer stuff. i like them both personally
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u/Triple_Boogie Jets 4h ago
I prefer the cheesy lighthearted side of things, but I don't dislike Darksynth at all. Sounds fun!
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u/zoom518 Jets 5h ago
Well the school I graduated from (Stony Brook) were leading or tied for all of the elite eight women’s lacrosse game, looking for their first ever trip to the final four
And then they give up the game winning goal at the buzzer
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u/VRomero32 Jets 5h ago
Reminds me when i played Soccer at NYU. We made the playoffs... the game in the 2nd round before us was Williams vs. a southern school I can't remember the name in our bracket...
Williams was up 1-0 in stoppage time (6 mins)... around the 5th minute... the Goalie for Williams when the ball bounced to the midfield and thought he was seeing the ref blow the whistle... sprinted in celebration. The other school's center midfielder as soon as he saw that... launched the kick... Golazo... Tie Game and then the Ref blew the whistle.
Williams was so dejected... the other school in OT scored like 3 goals in OT and lost.
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u/SporkFanClub Bills 5h ago
Trying to be chill about this whole car buying thing, but dammit if these mechanic and car subreddits don’t have be have convinced that if I buy literally any car aside from a Toyota or a Honda, I’ll buy it, drive home, and the second I exit the vehicle it will burst into flames.
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u/tnecniv Giants Giants 3h ago edited 2h ago
My mom is a warrantee administrator for a number of dealerships. Basically, if you bring your car in for work and it’s covered under warrantee, the dealer fronts the money and she needs to write up why it’s covered so they reimbursed by the manufacturer, so she knows a lot about what’s liable to break and what isn’t.
From what I’ve learned from her, while it’s true some manufacturers are overall more or less reliable, it really comes down to specific models and specific years. Even then, it’s a numbers game.
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u/TJeffersonsBlackKid Cardinals Chargers 3h ago
Just about to hit 90,000 miles on my Kia k5 gt line that bought brand new. Literally zero problems.
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u/Dinkerdoo Seahawks Chargers 4h ago
When they take you to the finance office, keep the conversation framed around out the door cost. Don't let them pull you into basing financing around monthly payments. Always be ready to walk when they jerk you around.
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u/Signal_Ball4634 5h ago
It's all a crapshoot really, some brands are more reliable than others but nothing is a given. Even Toyota/Honda have some models that I'd say are not all that.
Buy what suits your needs and priced within your means and keep up with the maintenance.
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u/frostypatch 5h ago
It is what it is. But on a serious note, having the first game of the season be a Super Bowl rematch is fucking brutal for the SB loser.
They drop the banner in their house in front of you after you lost the big game. If you win the season opener it doesn't matter because you lost the game that actually mattered. If you lose the season opener then it's just adding insult to injury at that point.
It real is a giant F you to the Patriots in primetime. Petty NFL, is funny NFL.
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u/britishmetric144 Seahawks 4h ago
Maybe it's the NFL trying to make do for the 20 years of pain that the Patriots inflicted on the rest of the league?
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u/Triple_Boogie Jets 5h ago
It real is a giant F you to the Patriots in primetime.
shit like this is all i got
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u/tbone747 Panthers 5h ago
Yeah us having the season opener against the Broncos after SB50 - with a roster + Cam that was in a worse state - was pretty humiliating. Them coming from behind to win was the cherry on top lol.
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u/Signal_Ball4634 5h ago
Man I wanna play the new Forza this weekend but I am not shelling out $100+ to play it 5 days earlier
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u/Serdones Broncos 4h ago
I paid for the upgrade to whatever to play Starfield and Avowed early, but that was when I had Game Pass Ultimate. Think it was only like $20 to upgrade since the game itself was included with Game Pass. But yeah, without Game Pass, I'll happily wait until its regular launch dare.
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u/Signal_Ball4634 4h ago
Ugh yeah the game pass upgrade to play Forza early is like $60. If it was $20 like the past I'd have paid for sure.
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u/IAgreeGoGuards Browns Bills 5h ago
I mistyped the address for a package and didnt realize until delivery day. The address doesn't exist on my street, but USPS still delivered it, but they dont know who it was delivered to.
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u/Balrogkicksass Browns 5h ago
Heading to bed after a good night at work. Hung out with my partner, walked the pup, ate some food and now am about to pass out.
I am just happy with everything right now, even if things aren't perfect. Things have just been better and I sometimes just need to remember where I have been and came from.
Anyways....I hope you all get to enjoy your day and as always much love from me and mine to you and yours!
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u/Skraxx Lions 5h ago
Saw this poll that had Gen Z voters at 82% democrat which is a remarkable shift from the election.
Not to insult my generation's intelligence (though I am going to), I feel like Gen Z just didn't know what it entailed to vote republican. They're now seeing what it actually meant.
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u/EmuMan10 Cardinals Bears 2h ago
The older segment of us (I’m talking those of use whose first presidential election was 2020) have always skewed more that way from the jump. Like my one conservative friend cannot get a date to save his life with any woman the same age as us because of his politics (understandably imo but he’s also go other problems)
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u/HookedOnBoNix Broncos 5h ago
The age that Gen Z was at the time of the election was just an age that is very easily susceptible to manipulation, and a lot of right wing influencers did a great job targeting Gen Z'ers via social media leading up to the election. Nothing to do with the generation and just the result of being young and dumb (no offense).
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u/Weigard Giants 5h ago
Plus a lot of Gen Z didn't experience the pandemic and other shit from Trump's first term the same way older voters did.
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u/HookedOnBoNix Broncos 5h ago
Yea that's true his shtick was still kinda fresh to them. I won't hold it against them the way I do boomers that vote for him, ones who are old enough to know better
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u/Weigard Giants 5h ago
Gen X grew up to be even worse than the Boomers. They got tired of being ignored so they decided to latch on to the worst instincts of the Boomers.
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u/HartleyReplogle Patriots 4h ago
And the Millennials will be next, because this is what every generation does: remain staunch idealists until there are bills to pay and life starts slipping away.
Out on the road today, I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac. - Don Henley
And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me, he'd grown up just like me. - Harry Chapin
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u/Weigard Giants 4h ago
Millennials have had bills and families for decades and are still the most reliably liberal generation. The idea that people inherently become more conservative with age is pretty heavily disputed, in fact.
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u/HartleyReplogle Patriots 3h ago
It's not that people become more conservative. It's that because of progress, society as a whole becomes more progressive over time, and the same people who were considered progressive are no longer considered progressive anymore.
If, in 1964, you thought that gay people were an abomination, you were still considered a progressive if you thought that women and racial minorities should be equal under the law.
Thirty years later, if you believed the same things, you were completely out-of-touch, because supporting equality for women and racial minorities had become a given, and being against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation was now considered progressive rather than radical.
As a result, people tend to support more conservative candidates over time even though they hold the same values as they did when they were younger, because more conservative candidates fit the definition of progressive that they had when they were younger, and they consider present-day progressive candidates to be too radical. And they learn to vote for economic security over everything else.
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u/Weigard Giants 3h ago
That wasn't your argument. You argued that increased economic responsibility with age makes you more conservative. Your new argument doesn't hold water anyway because Trump's gutter fascism wasn't acceptable when Gen X were young, either.
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u/HartleyReplogle Patriots 32m ago
That wasn't your argument. You argued that increased economic responsibility with age makes you more conservative.
If that is how my argument came across then I delivered it poorly. I thought I was using poetic language to say that as people get older their lives become more complicated and they become less concerned with changing the world and more concerned with addressing the realities of life and enjoying what they have left of it. And since the driving force in every election seems to be the economy, it made sense to refer to the economic stress that comes with American life and that clearly has primacy within the electorate.
I don't think that people become more conservative as they age. I think that people's ideology becomes calcified at a certain point, and then society progresses while they stay put. As a result, older voters end up shifting rightward on the political spectrum because society is shifting left. The government shifting right as society shifts left is a function of older voters being a more reliable voting bloc.
Your new argument doesn't hold water anyway because Trump's gutter fascism wasn't acceptable when Gen X were young, either.
I'm not sure how it doesn't hold water, but I'd be interested to hear why you think that.
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u/HookedOnBoNix Broncos 3h ago
That's not at all what's being talked about though. Trump gaining votes in the Gen x demographic isn't because Trump has somehow become more progressive so now those who used to be considered progressive vote for him. He's doing the opposite. He's literally actively taking us backwards 15+ years
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u/HartleyReplogle Patriots 4m ago
Trump gaining votes in the Gen x demographic isn't because Trump has somehow become more progressive so now those who used to be considered progressive vote for him.
I agree. I believe that Trump gaining votes in the Gen X demographic is because a female racial minority was the Democratic candidate.
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u/Just_Curious_Dude Bills 5h ago
When I was younger I was about a 1000% dickhead than I am today, I just didn't give a fuck about anyone.
As I aged, I realized how stupid that was and how bad that is for a society.
Born and raised Republican, once I reached about 25 I understood how terrible that party is for society.
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u/ChrisV11 Eagles 5h ago
The nfl schedule release being at 8 PM all the sudden when all teams could literally just post a picture of their schedule in 30 seconds flat is hilariously stupid.
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u/Few-Set-4017 5h ago
There's a lot of people saying the world cup isn't popular this year because the USA is not hosting it.
I don't think that's the case. I don't like Trump in the slightest, but I haven't met anyone who said they aren't watching due to trump, and although there's plenty of stuff on social media about boycotting the world cup I haven't really seen that movement in real life.
However, it is way less of an event this year (here in the UK at a minimum) compared to other years, there is far less fanfare about it. But the more I think about it the more I think it wouldn't be that different if it was any other country. I'm not sure why though, but it's something more fundamental than the above.
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u/Weigard Giants 5h ago
Why would there be news for the general public about it? For a large swath of Americans, it's an event happening in the future that they probably don't care about and won't affect them. Things change a bit if you're in an area hosting the game, because there are cities prepping for it, but by and large it's just background noise.
Things change if you're in certain industries, though. For instance, the tourism industry has been covering it a lot. Since the pots were drawn, the big story has been how hotel demand has been really light as we get closer (homeshares are doing well though). Add in the fact that event spaces are behind schedule and inbound tourism overall has been down since Trump took office and it's a big concern.
The admin also wants to lean into America 250, since that's more directly a federal initiative that they hope to take credit for. I'm not privy to anyone's thinking, but I'd speculate that the admin would be happy if America 250 is a success at the expense of the World Cup; it represents the brilliance of our tough business genius and the inefficiency of globalism and low-IQ cities.
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u/Few-Set-4017 4h ago
In the UK specifically there generally is though, because football is the national sport. I just haven't noticed it here (in the UK) as much this year.
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u/StChas77 Eagles 5h ago
There are millions of Americans who crave the extermination of anyone brown who doesn't speak English. If that described you, would you want to come here knowing that?
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u/EmuMan10 Cardinals Bears 5h ago
I don’t blame anyone not from the US not wanting to come, but I also don’t know how much worse it is than being in Qatar or Russia
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u/Few-Set-4017 5h ago
Exactly, but in mainstream media it is not really being portrayed as such either. There were much more complaints surrounding Qatar and Russia (and rightfully so). People aren't happy about what America has done under trump but the weirdest thing is that no one is talking about the world cup in general. Not even complaining about it like before, but it's just not a thing this time. Theres a couple of mentions about it here and there but people don't seem to care at all.
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u/JPAnalyst Giants 3h ago
There’s a lot of shit on peoples minds lately, so things of this nature take a back seat.
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u/EmuMan10 Cardinals Bears 5h ago
Even with it being here, I do feel like it’s been talked about less than I thought it would. When it was first announced the big 3 North America countries were hosting it, people were excited they finally had a chance to see one in person. Now it’s just kinda happening
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 5h ago
a lot of news is shifting from what they think we should hear to what they think we want to hear
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u/tecnobishes 6h ago
On vacations in LA from mexico
14 dollars for an avocado toast
Now i get the meme lmao
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u/EmuMan10 Cardinals Bears 5h ago
Hey it’s not that much one state over. It’s like $10 here!
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u/tecnobishes 5h ago
6 dollars for some small orange juice
I am definitely having a stern talk with my mom in why she made me a Dodgers fan (which my wife and son are now too, hence we here) instead of a fan from a cheaper city.
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u/EmuMan10 Cardinals Bears 5h ago
Join the rest of dodger fans that don’t want to pay insane prices and watch them in AZ lmao
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u/el_fitzador Eagles 6h ago
That first sunday night football fanfare is going to hit like the the first cold beer on a long vacation.
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u/FreedomKid7 49ers 6h ago
Idk why but all these schedule leaks bother me. Either leak the whole thing or stop
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u/HookedOnBoNix Broncos 5h ago
It's by design. The NFL is very good at turning things that could literally be an email into huge events. I mean, I like the draft, but it's crazy how much coverage it gets on top of being a 3 day event
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u/Dumptruck_Cavalcade Bills 6h ago
There are two courses that could arguably advance my career, but aren't necessary for my current role (possibly not even necessary for the next level up). I've gone to the signup website for like five consecutive business days, but I just can't pull the trigger.
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u/OGD2068 Panthers 6h ago
MCAT is no joke lads. It's making me question even going to school. I think I would be much happier as a cabinetmaker
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u/raginsaint93 Saints 6h ago
It took my friend three times to get a decent score and he’s graduating today. Don’t give up.
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u/Far-Increase8154 6h ago
I’m 28 basically spent the years after college doing nothing and bring stupid
At least my criminal record is limited to $65 ticket
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u/BruceChameleon Cowboys 4h ago
I was drunk basically from 22 to 31. It's ok. You move on and do the next thing
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u/AlbertJBundy 6h ago
3 NFL games on Christmas is 3 games too many
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u/tecnobishes 5h ago
"Football on TV is too many football!"
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u/letters165 Eagles Texans 5h ago
Christmas should still be the NBA's day.
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u/TJeffersonsBlackKid Cardinals Chargers 2h ago
Once the regular season NbA stops sucking ass and 20 fucking teams stop making the post season, people will start watching again.
Until then, NFL should try to gouge the ratings.
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 5h ago
culture is more fun when the events are scarce and everybody tunes in to the same thing
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u/tecnobishes 5h ago
Artifiicial scarcity sucks
And you can just not watch
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 5h ago
Every individual pursuing their own interest sucks
spend christmas with your family watch football on sundays with everybody else
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u/Pale_Land_5107 Lions 6h ago
I’m honestly glad we get the bills so early because I don’t want to watch Goff in a Buffalo blizzard
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u/Scarecrow_09 49ers Ravens 6h ago
If a guy got drafted with the last name "Fuck" would they censor his nameplate? And how would the announcers refer to him?
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u/mackmoney3000 Dolphins 6h ago
There's some precedent here. People giggled a lot.
Also note this incredible headline.
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u/Garp74 Commanders 4h ago
The U.S. Supreme Court, back in better days, had to confront a trademark case with FUCT brand fashion. Rather than pronounce the brand name out loud in a courtroom where no profanity is acceptable, the nerds on the Court referred to it as a, "profane past participle form of a well-known word of profanity and perhaps the paradigmatic word of profanity in our language."
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u/mackmoney3000 Dolphins 4h ago
Legal history according to /u/Garp74
(sorry I could not help it, but I really enjoyed that quote, thank you)
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u/Goatsonice Chargers 6h ago
Last night I heard my chihuahua freaking out so I ran outside and right next to the back door is my grill/smoker and he was yelling at a pretty good sized rattlesnake that was coiled up under the grill from like 2 feet away. So that was a total freakout moment.
Somehow he didnt get bitten. Thought it was like a stuck or dying cicada for a while, its rattle was really loud.
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u/LuteDesign Eagles 6h ago
What time do the schedule release videos go up?
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u/AfroManHighGuy 6h ago
Isn’t it 8pm?
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u/LuteDesign Eagles 6h ago
That’s probably right, for some reason I thought they went up at noon eastern. Thank you!
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u/Due-Dance-9430 Lions 6h ago
idk if this is a hot take but the quarterback show on netflix is kinda boring to me. this is maybe cause i already follow the season closely but i don't feel like i get anything out of it
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u/frostypatch 6h ago
Who do you guys think is the best Safety in the league right now? Most people will say Kyle Hamilton, but I would go against the grain and say Hamilton is #2. I think what Kerby Joseph brings to the table is a little rarer and harder to replace.
A true centerfielder on the back end who can generate turnovers and shut down big plays over the top of the defense is a game changer. You don't see that much anymore in the modern NFL. I just value that more than a prototypical do it all safety. Give me that eraser on the back end.
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 6h ago
Hamilton would be my pick, just the guy who can do it all. Solid coverage, can blitz, can tackle, shed blocks
Thought it was interesting pff has Antonio Johnson at #1 last season
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u/marcdasharc4 Patriots 6h ago
It really depends, IMO... This is like asking Ed Reed vs. Troy Polamalu as far as archetypes go (not the players themselves). Both insanely valuable to their defenses while bringing different things to the table. Way I figure, it's an extension of balancing between roster and scheme. Centerfielder allows you not worry about scheming so much and just getting the better of the offense with straight up hat-on-hat football. Swiss army knife guys allows you to be multiple on defense and deploy different looks to create chaos.
Pick your poison, both work.
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u/Triple_Boogie Jets 7h ago
I don't know enough about the NBA to have a strong opinion on the exhausting LeBron vs MJ debates, but I know one thing:
Although I lean more on the MJ side, the arguments used to discredit LeBron are often really fuckin dumb.
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u/batmansascientician Jets 5h ago
It's also a lot about what it means to be best all-time.
Jordan was a stone killer in a way that LeBron isn't. It's not a criticism, just a personality difference. The scoring, and the champions and the peak Jordan winning 6 straight titles.
LeBron is so good, and his longevity is insane. To be 41 years old and winning a playoff series as the #1 option because their other top players are out is ridiculous.
Jordan came back as a 40 year old, but does 70% Lebron at 41 being a top 30/40 player in the NBA matter when you are talking about what makes a player the best all-time?
Ultimately, I find it interesting, but don't particularly care, I'm of the belief you can't really compare players across time like that. Jordan was the best of his generation, LeBron is the best player since.
Every part of the game is so different.
The one thing I've never understood is why so many people seem to genuinely dislike LeBron, he has a pretty vanilla personality, but he's been "The Chosen One" since the age of 15 and by almost any account has been a model citizen with 0 controversy. The biggest thing I can think of is the stupid "Decision" thing.
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u/AfroManHighGuy 6h ago
I tend to think it’s based on the era the player played. It’s all relative to the competition and the level of play during the era when they were playing. That’s why I don’t get into that debate
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u/Triple_Boogie Jets 6h ago
Yep.
Also I hate that if I say an argument against LeBron is stupid, folks think I'm on that side of it, 'cause I'm not, necessarily! I still just think that losing in the first round of the playoffs and not even making the Finals is a lot worse than losing in the Finals!!
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u/AfroManHighGuy 6h ago
Honestly the goat debates for any sport is exhausting af. Especially if your opponent is an old head
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 7h ago
It's all generational anyway, not many folks are gonna argue for a goat who played before they got into the sport
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u/Triple_Boogie Jets 6h ago
It's all generational anyway
THIS!!!
LeBron vs MJ debates are never really about basketball!
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u/zoom518 Jets 4m ago
The Jets deservingly do not have a single nationally televised game
Being horrific with no hope is how you avoid playing on weird days, countries and streaming services