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I am familiar with the concept. Not sure it applies. He often gets in trouble for stuff he says openly at public product release events or tweets about. It wasn't the result of some massive targeted invesitagion that resulted in the SEC looking into him. He for whatever reason tweeted that he had secured funding to take Tesla private at rather large premium over market price. Huge swings in the stock price followed and surprisingly Tesla was never went private. It's like when he called the British diving expert that rejected his Space X built mini-sub for the cave rescue that "Pedo guy" on twitter." Musk initially apologized only to tweet months later "You don’t think it’s strange he hasn’t sued me? He was offered free legal services.” Eventually after that tweet he got sued. He's just minding his own business and trouble finds him...

No tax on tips would encourage more businesses to try ans incorporate them. I wouldn't want that. Is this really a partisan issue. Who wants to see more tablets at checkout that are going to "ask you a question?"

Couldn't he be a fit at 157? Iowa loses Teemer after this year.

On what basis?

51% of voters say Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion departments are needed in government. You think that was rigged too?

With the condoms mix up I wasn't trying to justify it as an unnecessary cut vs a necessary one it was more to point out how DOGE is proceeding in such a careless manner that they do not realize what they did not even notice the difference. I don't know how anyone can conclude whether or not what they did was wise at this juncture. I would find it impossible to grade their actions as positive being even they don't seem to fully realize what all they have done. It may work out to be far less than advertised. Making mistakes on how much is being saved is the same as making mistakes on how much is actually being spent. Government agencies that can't pass an audit is a problem that any serious undertaking to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse must tackle. DOGE hastily posting misleading and inaccurate savings further obfuscates actual spending levels from the public.

The crack team at DOGE initially reported USAID spent $50MM on condoms sent to Gaza. Trump and his officials thought it was wasteful to send this to Palestine and implied it was likely misappropriated by Hamas to buy bombs because they have no use for condoms. The condoms were sent to Gaza, but it was Gaza the Providence in the country of Mozambique where over 10% of the adult population has HIV... DOGE are cutting things they don't understand in a chaotic and disorganized manner. That ain't efficiency. A bunch of workers in the Department of Energy were hastily let go. Turns out many had important positions managing warheads and disposing of nuclear waste. Now they are trying to hire them back. https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-doge-firings-trump-federal-916e6819104f04f44c345b7dde4904d5 That isn't removing fat so much as cutting off your own foot only to then realize your folly and then have to try and reattach it. No one is complaining about cancelling unnecessary WinZip licenses, superfluous subscriptions, or stopping payments to actually dead or nonexistant people. Not many would complain about trimming the federal workforce in a well thought out and organized manner but why do it in a way that antagonizes those managing our nuclear weapons?

Conservatives have fewer complaints about overspending when it's a Republican in office doing it. Liberals complain less about budget cuts when Democrats are carrying them out.

Sparty its not just that the wrong person is doing it, but they are doing it in a disorganized and chaotic manner which in turn makes it less likely to realize the desired result. The fact that Elon Musk was given the task all but guaranteed this is how things would play out. I think your metaphor throws out the baby with the bath water. Appleseed isn't just throwing around his seed, it's the US taxpayers' and at the same time he owns his own apple orchard and runs a shady roadside fruit stand. Meanwhile Appleseed calls USAID's apples a ball of worms and shuts down the entire agency. However USAID gets their apples by buying $2 billion annually in apple seed and other agricultural products from US farmers to distribute as aid across the globe. So some of the people most hurt by the USAID cuts will be... American farmers.

Pat and Lee Roy Smith.

I think if Carter wins the Staroccis would be tied for third. The Peery brothers are both 3xers. I missed them earlier.

When Musk unveiled the Tesla Semi he spotlighted the great acceleration and 500mi all with a total weight of 81,000lbs. He steered far away from publicly stating what portion of that number was cargo, which really is the most important weight number. Why do you reckon he would do such a thing? Could it be that the cargo capacity is embarrassingly low? The only commercial user of the Tesla Semi that I am aware of is Pepsi Co and they use it to transport chips. Pepsi Co says that when transporting a load of potato chips they get a range of around 450mi on a charge however a trailer full of soda only gets 100mi. I think we know why he did it. I don't think wanting to cut out waste and abuse is a left or right issue. Waste, fraud, and abuse should be eliminated. The problem is that Elon Musk is a fraudster. He's been on the supply side of fraud for years and now he is going to eliminate it?

Not necessarily the most apt metaphor. Could be more like a dark theater. Shining a spotlight on what you want the audience to focus on allows things to happen that go unnoticed. The contrast is the problem. You only see what is illuminated allowing stagehands to shuffle around unnoticed in relative darkness.

Selective transparency can be just as misleading.

You think they could break the record for most NCAA titles by a pair of brothers? Where does that record stand? Pat and John Smith have 6 between them. AJ's 2021 run at NCAAs was pretty impressive in retrospect. He beat Tanner Sloan, Jacob Warner, Myles Amine, and Nino Bonaccorsi in a row. All would end up wrestling in an NCAA final at one point in their career. Beating Myles Amine is probably more impressive than anything Angelo has done this far.

It was a great performance by Caliendo. I got that one wrong. Had Amine been wrestling with the mask leading up to the dual or was that new too?

It is often inconvenient to give receipts that don't match up with public statements. Musk pretended to be turned the homes on the desperate housewives set into solar powered homes back in 2018. Back in January he was pretended to be an elite Path of Exile 2 player. Might he be pretending to cut $1 trillion from the budget now? I didn't say it was impossible for it to be true, just that it shouldn't be believed without receipts. After all the public statements Musk has made that were later found to be either outright false or gross exaggerations, only someone that is incredibly gullible would take his claims at face value.

Mayhaps, but when Musk initially said he expected they could cut at least $2 trillion from the Harris-Biden budget that was an annual budget. If it turns out to be an accumulation of $2 trillion in savings over 5-6 years he would have under delivered by a substantial margin.

Without receipts they can claim whatever they want. Elon Musk often does this in his business dealings. Fake battery swaps, taking Tesla private, solar homes built with non-functional solar shingles, the roadster, full self driving, the Hyperloop... this list is long.

I didn't intend to imply that you thought they were the same. It was more to point out that they were different so however late Brands allowed the 133 wrestle off to happen last year this probably need more lead time from Big Tens. I recall that 133 spot being settled late and Teske being a bit of a surprise at the time, but looking back maybe it wasn't. Teske wrestled the last two weeks of duals and he was #14 in the preseeds that came out the Tuesday before Big Tens. I'd guess a final wrestleoff would have happened between the last dual and the Monday before Big Tens.

The Schriever-Teske roster battle is a little different than the hypothetical situation here. Both of those guys had certified long before Big Tens and had competed at the weight that year. This would be more like the Joe Smith-Chandler Rogers wrestle off at the end of Cowboy Slim Fast. I doubt it's possible. For it to be possible Arnold would have had to weigh in light for the Minnesota dual too. Nelson Brands-Patrick Kennedy is likely the only 174lb wrestle off.

Isn't the rule that you can lose 1.5%/week? Arnold wrestled 184 against Northwestern on 2/16. Big Tens start on 3/8. That's only 20 days. He have had to weigh in light on 2/16 for it to be possible. Like 181.5 or less. Even then I think he'd have to pass a hydration test the first time he weighs in below 184, so it would be risky to do that at the big ten weigh ins. Ideally you'd want him to do that before the tournament. I don't think Big Tens is the kind of tournament where if he misses weight or makes weight but is dehydrated so fails certification you can just weigh in another guy and wrestle someone else. So he'd probably need to be even lighter at Northwestern for it to be practicable. Finally for fairness you'd like Arnold down to weight for a wrestle off with the other guys (Brands and Arnold) on weight and ahead of the tournament. Making him weigh in on weight ahead of his decent plan wouldn't seem fair to him and allowing him to wrestle off with a weight allowance doesn't seem like it would be fair to Kennedy/Brands.

Brands "We're going to put the guy on the mat that makes the most sense."

If he's medically cleared to compete now isn't a medical redshirt off the table?

PSU lost at 133lbs.