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I went back and watched the Packers drop backs on film for the 4th time and I don’t know if we’ll ever see anything like it ever again.
I’m not gonna beat a dead horse with a two hour long video but there’s some key things that I’m taking away from it.
1. The running backs need to lock in. They specifically need to own their assignment and trust it. They also need to stop staring at exactly where they are going, it’s a huge tell to the defense on what the protection will be.
2. Right guard needs to be better. I don’t know if he’s physically capable, and tbh he’s probably more a center at most than a guard right now. No lateral quickness.
3. Against a team like the Vikings when the Packers decide to throw the ball, they need to as often as possible, being in a position where there is a tight end and running back attached to the box. Need a multiple answer 0 Blitz mug option at all times. If they bail out, live in the chip checkdown world.
4. The bench/ role player tight ends NEED to lock in. If they can’t, the packers need to get new TE 3’s & 4’s. One of the many reasons the game was blown (pass protection)
5. Stop using center staring through legs silent cadence. It’s costing you games and it has been on the road in loud environments for years.
6. Find creative short yardage packaged plays. A QB sneak isn’t the answer. Maybe go watch some Chiefs film and steal their plays.
7. Find creative quick ways to get the ball in space, it’s an extension of the run game. No more second and long runs.
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Ted. Look at our deficit. Look at how much we pay in interest every minute of every day. Look what that is doing to interest rates.
It’s Econ 101, you either have to raise revenue significantly, cut spending, significantly. Or both.
Talarico committed to support the Break Up Big Medicine Bill. That was a pre requisite for my doing the event with him this week.
If this Hawley/ Warren bill passes, we would reduce the deficit. We would cut costs for patients. Drug pricing would drop like a rock.
Yet not a word from you in support Ted. Why ?
A true capitalist would understand how these economics work. They wouldn’t ignore the fact that our debt levels pull money away from business. And consumers.
If you truly want to do what is best for business, and the economy, we are going to have to raise taxes and cut spending.
The best place to cut spending is by removing the HealthCare middlemen that are Too Big To Care, which is exactly what the Break Up Big Medicine Bill does
You ready to whip up support among republicans ? Or do you prefer people dying because they can’t afford care , and the economy continuing to slow down because we are having to print money to financial engineer our debt obligations.
What say you Ted ?
Mark, your second paragraph refutes your first, and your support for James Talarico makes the contradiction even stranger.
You’re right: taxes change behavior. That’s why President Trump cut them. After years of Obama-era stagnation, we rewarded work and investment. Before COVID, unemployment hit a 50-year low and poverty fell to the lowest rate ever recorded.
Last July, every Senate Democrat voted to let a $4 trillion tax increase hit Americans, the largest in history. Now Talarico wants higher taxes, calls capitalism an “oppressive system” to be dismantled, says “God is nonbinary,” says there are “six really common biological sexes,” and wants a “giant welcome mat” at our southern border.
If incentives matter, and they do, why on earth would Texas go backwards?
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Bought some fireworks today and I wasn't sure I'd picked out the right stuff until the salesman smiled and high-foured me.
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BREAKING: Google is planning to release 32 million mosquitoes across Florida and California.
The company has asked the EPA for permission to proceed, with the public given until June 5 to respond.
The mosquitoes are infected with Wolbachia bacteria, which stops them from reproducing and slowly collapses the wild population from within.
Google's previous Debug Project trial in California's Central Valley nearly eliminated mosquitoes from three test sites entirely. A separate trial in Singapore cut dengue cases by 70% within 12 months.
Google has now released over 1 billion mosquitoes across four continents. This new proposal is the largest deployment in US history.
This JP Morgan story is the best thing to happen to Twitter since Trump turned himself into a doctor
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Orcas have brain structures you don't have.
Neurobiologist Lori Marino's MRI work on killer whales identified a fourth cortical segment called the paralimbic lobe. It sits next to the limbic system and handles emotion and social awareness. It doesn't exist in humans or in any land mammal. In orcas, it's so elaborated it erupts into the cortex.
Their cortical limbic lobe, the region handling self-awareness and social processing, is exceptionally developed. Their brain weighs roughly 12 pounds, four times the mass of yours. They have spindle cells, the same neurons that let humans reason about other minds.
When an orca surfaces and locks eyes with you, it's running a social assessment with neural hardware specialized for exactly that. It knows you're a separate being. It knows you're watching it back. It's evaluating you.
Here's what should recontextualize the clip. In all of recorded history, wild orcas have killed zero humans. Zero documented fatalities. One surfer was bitten off California in 1972, and the orca released him the moment it realized he wasn't a sea lion. A 12-year-old was bumped in Alaska in 2005. The orca approached, touched him, turned back.
Orcas hunt great white sharks. They coordinate wave attacks that sweep seals off ice floes. They take down moose swimming between islands. They have every capability to kill you. They have never chosen to.
Marino's explanation: the orca neocortex is developed enough to instantly distinguish a human from prey. Other researchers point to orca culture, the traditions passed through pods across generations, in which humans simply aren't food.
That look is recognition and restraint. From a mind built for social cognition at a scale your brain can't reach.
