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No, it's not "easier," but it's also not any more difficult. That's just how I write. More to the point, it's how I'd speak, so I write it how I'd say it. Stream of Consciousness. And THAT would be "post padding?" Writing '33 instead of 133? Sure, that makes a TON of sense. I'm padding my posts by substituting a quotation mark in lieu of a number...the exact same number of characters. Dude... you've posted... I don't know, at least 2 or 3 times today about my posts(I think on this thread) and you seem quite bothered by longer posts which you're obviously obligated to read. You also seem to think the more weird little passive aggressive pre-teen like comments you make I'm going to change. Tell me, in the last 8 months and the however many times you've done that, have I ever once expressed enough respect for your opinion that I'd change how I write? Now... I was having a pretty good conversation with @nhs67 and while you talk about "post padding," which you clearly consider important, you've posted multiple times about the structure of my posts. You got anything to add here other than I use too many paragraphs? Are you the boards version of an HOA policing my word count? In fact, I'm getting strong "stay at home Dad who ran for the HOA board," vibes here. You probably get that awesome golf cart and get have that time going, making sure everyone's go those garbage cans in within 12 hours of when they're emptied! Just waiting for someone t run a minute over so you can and police something else so tedious but you find it SUPER cool! Anything else?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/clintons-ordered-to-testify-in-epstein-investigation/ar-AA1JX58o?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=9c481042cd434183b91c10a8bb32163a&ei=47

Do you just make things up and hope it turns out to be even marginally true?

California can’t survive without the Colorado River.

... get on it!

Where do those taxes go ?

Ok...and what I said was; Did I say 85%? I don't recall. I do know they have like 125,000 employees and about ~2000 are located in Texas. If you want to call that a "Texas" company... ok...cool. Their R&D, sales, consulting, engineering, support, and research are all located in California. They are at their offices in Irvine, Pleasanton, Redwood Shores, Rocklin, Santa Clara, Santa Monica. Their famous "Emerald City," in Redwood is STILL where their innovation and engineering takes place. Meanwhile, in Texas, they subleased the office that is their "Headquarters." So please, lets not insult each others intelligence anymore by arguing the parts of these companies that make them valuable are from Texas or...wherever. Or...again, that anyone gives a single bowel movement about In and Out now paying Tennessee tax rates while still making most of their money in... California. As for their "overregulation," yeah... I've said that repeatedly. And Texas is the other end of that spectrum with their power grid and building standards. They have ZERO regulation. There's a happy medium. I don't know where you live, but the entire State doesn't shut down because it's 30 degrees and and the unregulated power grid goes down.

Maybe he was post padding. Scourge likes big post' with 4-7 paragraphs...

Ok, but I don’t see that she complained about the ad

No. But she was parodied on South Park. That’s how I know who she is. You should watch the episode it’s comedy gold.

Amos should have went somewhere else after that first season. Hillger and covid didn't help Amos any.

So a 2024 episode of South Park was complaining about a commercial from 2025? Interesting. Your AI needs work.

We all do. He should have gone anywhere but Wiscy. Here's to hoping he can bounce back and have a fantastic senior career.

I don’t think she did, she just released a parody of it. I’ve said this before, but your AI needs work.

Never heard of either. I did hear of Iizzo on South Park. It’s quite good you should watch it. ai summary In the 2024 South Parkstreaming special “The End of Obesity”, Eric Cartman's doctor prescribes him “Lizzo” as a cheaper alternative to weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro. The fictional drug “Lizzo” satirizes the popularity of weight loss medications and Lizzo's message of body positivity. The drug: The fake commercial claims “Lizzo” helps patients feel good about their weight and eat whatever they want, while minimizing physical activity. The narrator says 70% of patients no longer care how much they weigh

Any insight into who attended?

Doja Cat is a singer. Marc Lamont Hill is on BET

Google says that South Park Star lizzo complained a lot too.

Who tf is doja cat and Marc lemont hill?

You really think 15% of the liberals are complaining about this? I never even heard of those two people.

it’s more than 0.1%. I’d estimate about 15% (compared to like 90% of the right complaining about that 15%). The most notable people I could find that complained about it, and I went searching for it, were Doja Cat, and Marc Lamont Hill.

I blame Bono for the Amos stuff; never should have been 197 - let him eat and be a heavyweight and I bet he's got much better results.

Ok... for starters, I don't care where you've worked. I mean, anecdotally... it's midly interesting, but it's got nothing to do with the subject. Now, the companies that left. I see you start RIGHT out of the gate with Tesla. I believe I addressed this one and ...in fact others on the list. They move their headquarters out. They still have their engineering department there. The Brains of the operation. Why? Because that's where the talent is, that's where the majority of their workers are. Same thing with Oracle. Palantir-Again, all of it's major offices are in...Palo Alto. D, software engineering, product management, Palo Alto. The bulk of the company, California. It's moved for tax purposes. Oracle-Already touched on that one. Space X-Where do they actually create and make their rockets? Hawthorne, California. And then they ship them to Texas. Why? For the same reason TSMC had so much trouble finding enough people in Arizona and had to pay massive bonuses to get people to move there. THE TALENT IS IN CALIFORNIA. The talent, the programmers, the venture capitalist, the innovation, it's almost all in...California. I'm actually just amused that you cited In and out Burger. Again, they just announced and the majority of their stores are in California, but I don't think the argument was EVER made that California's importance to the Union was it's...fast food. And....seriously? Did you include a HAIR Care company? LOL... Jamba Juice? Let me ask you something, when Tesla moved to Delware, what do you think ACTUALLY changed? Nothing. And then when they wouldn't give Musk his 55B package...which to be fair, they should have, and I voted for it, but all the same, you think anything changed when they moved again? You're telling me where they rent an office with an address on it so they can pay less in taxes, NOT where the actual innovation happens. AND... this is ALL ignoring that 5 of the 10 BIGGEST companies in the world are STILL in California including the most important ones. NVDA, AVGO...AMD(and hundreds more, but that's the industry that's QUICKLY becoming the largest in the world. It's obvious you just cut and pasted this as there's no Earthly Way you would mention a Fast Food restaurant that JUST changed headquarters to somewhere in Tennessee and STILL has the vast majority of it's locations in California(I think it was 350 as the announcement was just a week or two ago). Or JAMBA JUICE? Please, prey tell, what is the strategic importance of Jamba Juice? The entire world is literally fighting over Nvidia's B200 NV72 GPU Clusters to power their Data Centers and they need Broadcom(AVGO) to help make the specialized chips to make them work, and SMCI to cool the Data Centers as they run so hot. But...Jamba Juice and Paul Mitchell Hair Care Products moved their headquarters. Yeah, I'd say that's about equal importance! Yeah, this is about the importance of California to the United States. If you want to talk about other States and which states are run better, you can look at the States with the most violent crime and the worst education. But again, even the companies you mentioned... you glossed right over the fact that the largest ones I'd ALREADY mentioned and pointed out that the most essential aspects of their business are STILL located in California. And now you want to talk about other blue states? Well, lets see if they can find the talent they need to build the world's most sophisticated semiconductors in Mississippi or Alabama. Even Taiwan Semiconductor which moved to AZ, a Purple State, they've publicly said that was a mistake as they costs were ~20% higher to hire people FROM California to come and work at their fabs. So now, AGAIN, we're living in a world in which California is NOT part of the United States and they do NOT have to subsidize the red states and they don't have to pay 126 BILLION DOLLARS. Operating under this very simple premise, do you think Canada's more valuable corporations would be able to move to the most tax advantaged State in the United States(or move to ANY State in the US at all)? I feel like you're not understanding the discussion. It's if California was it's own State. Based on the industry and what is made there(which is going to include much of Space X, virtually everything Tesla is doing with Robotics and FSD, Oracle... as that is STILL where it's more important divisions are located....hell, it's where almost ALL of their company is located but their accounting department). And none of it changes...about 34% of the SPY Market Cap is still business that are headquartered IN California even without the companies who have kept their manufacturing there and only moved their headquarters. Why do you think Elon Musk spends all his time at his CALIFORNIA campuses? Because his business are from Texas?

I agree with that It was more to the new rankings that got posted today. To me at this point being u20's occur when most schools have started already this would have been the time to remove. Its also nitpicking on my end and something likely 99% of people do not care about at all, I just like to project out team dual concepts/super 32/whos'1 so I have to dig a little deeper. Thank you for the response and please checkout my u20 predictions!

Part of the reason I am a bit more bullish on sammy is because I think our 1,2 at 57kg could have some issues that make the sub optimal by 2028. Now I hope that is not the case because I want the best possible team, however I think Lee's injury history likely makes him age a bit differently than most guys at 29 and I really think its going to be a tough pull for Luke by 2028. That being said Sammy is not my pick and I hope he is not our rep because I think that would likely mean the other two guys are compromised but I think there is a world where he is very competitive with those guys for the reasons I mentioned above.