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36 minutes ago, ionel said:
It may have been the same intern who used to work for Wkn and came up with the silly term pinfall.
Earl McCready never met a pinfall he didn't like.
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2 hours ago, nick said:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2230 - Facilitating Useful Loss Limitations to Help Our Unique Service Economy (FULL HOUSE) Act would have reinstated the previous rules for deducting wagering losses for tax purposes, however it didn't make it out
https://rollcall.com/2025/07/10/gambling-tax-repeal-bill-blocked-in-senate/
There is another attempt with the Fair Accounting for Income Realized from Betting Earnings Taxation (FAIR BET) Act -
https://titus.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=5805
How late did congressional interns have to work to come up with just the right acronym to please their bosses?
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25 minutes ago, Offthemat said:
It’s not a critique of past practices, it’s a plan for future applications, with some references to experiences from information collected from refugee camps in the past. That’s what the footnotes are, like always, references. Some, but not all, of the references are from refugee camp experiences. You even conveniently left out the preceding paragraph, which contains this phrase:
“The shielding approach is an ambitious undertaking, which may prove effective in preventing COVID-19 infection among high-risk populations if well managed. While the premise is based on mitigation strategies used in the United Kingdom“
“May prove effective” is not a reference to the past, and where are the refugee camps in the United Kingdom?
You could have just said “yes.”
Fine. If you want to be outraged over nothing, go ahead and be outraged. Twitter is the perfect place for you and Jeffrey Tucker shall be your muse.
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1 hour ago, Offthemat said:
So it’s not a plan? It’s just an outline of what to plan for when you make the plan? There’s no denying that some form of punishment and/or quarantine was finding favor at that time, especially among dimocrats.
Timeline considerations
Consideration: Plan for an extended duration of implementation time, at least 6 months.
Other logistical considerations
Consideration: Plan to identify additional resources and outline supply chain mechanisms to support green zones.
Social/Cultural/Religious Practices
Consideration: Plan for potential disruption of social networks.
No, it is not a plan. It is a critical examination of an approach used in refugee camps.
Try reading the summary that says this is not feasible. And note the emphasis on refugees.
"Public health not only focuses on the eradication of disease but addresses the entire spectrum of health and wellbeing. Populations displaced, due to natural disasters or war and, conflict are already fragile and have experienced increased mental, physical and/or emotional trauma. While the shielding approach is not meant to be coercive, it may appear forced or be misunderstood in humanitarian settings. As with many community interventions meant to decrease COVID-19 morbidity and mortality, compliance and behavior change are the primary rate-limiting steps and may be driven by social and emotional factors. These changes are difficult in developed, stable settings; thus, they may be particularly challenging in humanitarian settings which bring their own set of multi-faceted challenges that need to be taken into account.
Household-level shielding seems to be the most feasible and dignified as it allows for the least disruption to family structure and lifestyle, critical components to maintaining compliance. However, it is most susceptible to the introduction of a virus due to necessary movement or interaction outside the green zone, less oversight, and often large household sizes. It may be less feasible in settings where family shelters are small and do not have multiple compartments. In humanitarian settings, small village, sector/block, or camp-level shielding may allow for greater adherence to proposed protocol, but at the expense of longer-term social impacts triggered by separation from friends and family, feelings of isolation, and stigmatization. Most importantly, accidental introduction of the virus into a green zone may result in rapid transmission and increased morbidity and mortality as observed in assisted care facilities in the US.26
This is what intelligent people do. They consider all the alternatives, examine each one critically, reject those that do not work, and provide a write up of their analysis so that others may benefit from it.
What demagogues do is write disingenuous articles about it aimed at riling up people who will not think for themselves.
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21 minutes ago, PortaJohn said:
It's in reference to Cael's record. Someone would have to average 32 regular season wins plus 8 post season, (3 conf/5 NCAA's) to surpass him.
It is just easier to look for 40-0 or better since different conferences have different sized brackets.
The last to do that was Ben Askren, who did it two years in a row. 2006 he went 45-0, 2007 he went 42-0.
That also shows the problem. He had to fatten up on a lot of cupcakes to get to those numbers. He has talked about it on FRL too.
Even looking at Sanderson's totals it includes a wins over teammates wrestling unattached, and wrestlers from Augustana, Coe College, Cumberland, Minnesota State-Mankato, Montana State-Northern, Millersville, Montclair State, Nebraska-Kearney, Portland State, Southern Colorado, SUNY-Buffalo, Wartburg, and William Penn, none of which would count now.
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28 minutes ago, Caveira said:
Jesse Mendez ?
We are both wrong. I missed Mendez because of the loses. And I just noticed he said regular season.
I think the right answer is 2015 Gabe Dean who wrestled 32 D1 regular season matches and 35 total regular season matches.
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1 hour ago, mspart said:
Ukraine wanted to be part of NATO and there was some consideration for that. Putin didn't like that and started this war to prevent it and gain a buffer. But I think that has been acknowledged and Russia could back out and not have a NATO'd Ukraine as a neighbor.
I don't think Ukraine is demanding to be part of NATO anymore. If they are, I think NATO recognizes this would incite more war. This is really a war of conquest. Russia wants control of Ukraine. Ukraine doesn't want that. Left to themselves Russia would have taken them over easily. What would the next target be? Ukraine may be lost as a result or they may be partitioned, but the war has been disastrous for both countries and it would be crazy for Putin to try this again on some other former Soviet satellite.
mspart
I do not trust that Putin has the same definition of crazy as the rest of us.
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16 minutes ago, PortaJohn said:
@Wrestleknownothing who is the last champ to wrestle 32 regular season matches?
Exactly 32? Ashnault in 2019.
Parris wrestled 33 in 2023.
10 minutes ago, MPhillips said:Yes. By all means, tell the commoners...
noblesse oblige
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6 hours ago, Offthemat said:
You could have started with making a point.
The point is that the article is jam packed with lies. There was no CDC plan. The document he references is a critique by the CDC of documents written by the London School of Hygiene about how to deal with refugees in refugee camps.
When they refer to camps and camp-like settings they are referring to the following footnotes:
1. WHO. Pandemic influenza preparedness and mitigation in refugee and displaced populations WHO guidelines for humanitarian agencies Second edition. 2008.
2. Blundell H, Milligan R, Norris SL, Garner P. WHO guidance for refugees in camps: systematic review. BMJ Open. 2019;9:1–7.
But you would have to actually read the CDC document and then look at the documents referenced in its footnotes and, in turn, read their footnotes to get that. All of that involves a willingness to think for yourself rather than rely on the clearly biased opinion of someone who has poorly written his article to conceal the truth. He is so general and vague in so many places that warning bells should have been ringing.
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Until the NIL Go rules are clear (there will inevitably be more litigation), I spend the money on coaches and facilities. Facilities are there to stay and coaches can be tied down with contracts. But if pay-to-play returns (and I think it will) then I drop facilities from the equation and give that chunk to athletes.
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1 hour ago, Offthemat said:
The CDC Planned Quarantine Camps Nationwide
“The plan’s authors were unnamed but included 26 footnotes. It was completely official. The document was only removed on about March 26, 2023. During the entire intervening time, the plan survived on the CDC’s public site with little to no public notice or controversy.
It was called “Interim Operational Considerations for Implementing the Shielding Approach to Prevent COVID-19 Infections in Humanitarian Settings.”
By absence of empirical data, the meaning is: nothing like this has ever been tried. The point of the document was to map out how it could be possible and alert authorities to possible pitfalls to be avoided.
The meaning of “shielding” is “to reduce the number of severe Covid-19 cases by limiting contact between individuals at higher risk of developing severe disease (‘high-risk’) and the general population (‘low-risk’). High-risk individuals would be temporarily relocated to safe or ‘green zones’ established at the household, neighborhood, camp/sector, or community level depending on the context and setting. They would have minimal contact with family members and other low-risk residents.”
In other words, this is what used to be concentration camps.“
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-cdc-planned-quarantine-camps-nationwide/
I am trying to decide who read less of the CDC document, you or the author of this hilariously bad article (26 footnotes? Ooooo, scary).
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4 hours ago, Undefeated said:
If that game had been between Colorado and Inter Miami, it might not have been football - but when Chelsea plays PSG, that’s football.
The English, who invented the game, invented the word soccer.
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Wait. Does this mean immigrants were not eating our pets?
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In 16 months Trump went from "the Epstein Files will expose the Democrats" to " the files were written by the Democrats".
Kinda makes you think there are no Democrats in there after all. Oops.
But Trumps? Absolutely.
“Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration?”
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27 minutes ago, red viking said:
This joker is truly unreal. He flips more than the wind direction. Nobody even pays attention to his tariff threats anymore. Complete joke, internationally and domestically.
He'll probably be buddies w Putin agsin in a month.
Guy is in serious cognitive decline. I don't know if he'll last 3.5 more yrs.
There was just no way to predict that Putin could not be trusted. I mean, Trump empathisizes with autocrats, he identifies with them, he knows how they think. He gets beautiful letters from them. He trusts Putin over his own intelligence staff. He even talked about outsourcing intelligence work to Russia.
Trump is tight with Vlad. No one told him that Putin was untrustworthy.
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52 minutes ago, Tripnsweep said:
For 5 minutes I want you to use common sense and rational thinking here.
Why would FIFA give a trophy to him? He doesn't have a stake in any of the clubs participating. I can't find any instances of this having happened before. If he showed up at the Super Bowl and they gave him the Lombardi trophy and then gave a replica to the team that won it, I don't think people would like that.
The article said that the head of FIFA let him borrow it for display. Then later said to keep it. This sounds like FIFA placating his ego because they have to hold the World Cup here next year, and if they somehow bruised his fragile ego or offended him, he would cause trouble. And we know that it doesn't matter whether it costs the country money or anything else, his ego and feelings matter above all. So they just let him keep it, let him hang around during the trophy ceremony, gave him a medal, and let him feel important. Because it's easier to do that then deal with him being a petty asshole.
Infantino did it as a bribe to ensure that when the World Cup is in the US, Canada, and Mexico Trump will not ban travel from any qualifying countries.
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6 hours ago, WrestlingRasta said:
Don’t act like you care about the victims, you care only about anything that will give you something to cry over your ‘wingers’, all while pretending like this file didn’t sit through four years of the previous administration without going anywhere.
This topic is one that the powers that be of both the right and the left are in agreement on.
I do not doubt there are a large number of politicians on both sides of the aisle on the client list, but only Trump was dumb enough to make it an issue in order to get elected.
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6 hours ago, fishbane said:
This would essentially shut down gambling as a profession. What game is a 10% player edge possible?
The casino industry must be freaking out. I guess you can still report net winnings per gambling session. For example if you play two $1000 hands of black jack winning one and losing the other you'd had $0 taxable income. Do the same thing a month apart and that's $100 in taxable income.
Even worse for sports betting. Every bet is considered a session.
Nevada federal legislators are crafting a new bill to try to overturn this element.
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A late change to the Big Beautiful Bill (I chuckle every time) reduced the deduction for gambling loses to 90% from 100%.
Say you won $5k and lost $5k over the course of the year. Previously you would have no reportable net income. Now you will have $500 in taxable income, even though you had no income.
My guess is that most casual gamblers do not report either wins or loses on their taxes, so this can seem like a so what.
But in the case of an audit you should expect them to look at your online gambling history and hit you with a bill and a fine.
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7 minutes ago, manatree said:
What whole number comes between 1 and 2?
Like Homer Simpson, who invented a meal between breakfast and brunch, I am an innovator.
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And another thing....
Its pinfall. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
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8 hours ago, ScottishSteel said:
None taken; gave me an excuse to add an avatar pic so I could make that joke.
I will push back on Oregon St being the so called new kid on the block. They certainly can't match Okie St cause no one can; but they are like 4th in D1 history in dual meet wins (I believe only Okie St, Iowa St, and Iowa have more program wins) and have a Hodge winner. Just giving them a little respect is allDon't listen to these guys.
It's OSU, OSU and OSU. Dealer's choice.
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Hold all tickets. Today the Class Counsel took exception to the College Sports Commission's guidance with regard to collectives.
“We urge the CSC to retract the July CSC Memorandum and clarify that the valid business purpose requirement applies to NIL collectives in the same manner as any other entity,” the letter said. “If the CSC does not retract the statement, Class Counsel will have no choice but to pursue relief from the Special Master as the July CSC Memorandum is already causing injury to class members.” -
12 minutes ago, 11986 said:
Banachs in 1983 as well
Oops
Yes, the Banachs too
Meaning back-to-back happened in 1982, 1983, and 1984. And each time it was brothers, and only brothers.
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Liars Gonna Lie
in Non Wrestling Topics
Posted · Edited by Wrestleknownothing
Yesterday Trump gleefully told a story about how his uncle, an MIT professor, had taught the Unibomber, Ted Kaczynski and what a brilliant student he was.
Just a few small problems with that one. Kaczynski didn't go to MIT. He went to Harvard. And he was not identified as the Unibomber until 1996. Trump's uncle died in 1985.
Oh, and immigrants are eating pets.
And Jeffrey Epstein is boring, why does anyone even care, and Biden wrote the Epstein file, the proof of which Patel has provided to Bondi, who has it sitting on her desk right now, to be released momentarily, unless it becomes too boring and no one should care.