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I agree with Lipdrag on this. Unless I was looking to use the squat rack this person was using at this exact moment and there are no other squat racks were open, I would say nothing to this person. If I wanted to use this squat rack and no other squat option was available I would consider changing the order of my lifts to continue lifting without interruption and without engaging with this person. If that was either not an option or I didn't want to change order for whatever reason I would simply ask to work in and say nothing about memes or how I think a squat rack should be used. I also don't think saying something to this person would result in him adopting your preferred gym etiquette. If I were curling at a squat station and some old man approached me with no intent on using said squat rack and started telling me about his old sports injuries before showing me memes on his phone followed by telling me how he thinks I should be using the squat rack I would totally ignore everything he said. If it had any effect at all it might make me decide to do another set and possibly make the squat rack my preferred curl station. The memes are dumb. If someone is curling at a squat rack it is either because 1) the gym is empty or 1) that is where the open barbell is. If 1 then no one should care and if 2 then if he took the barbell elsewhere to curl no one is squatting in that squat rack anyway. No one cares. You said there was an open squat rack for you, so it highly likely that when this person decided to start his exercise there were two open squat racks. Most places don't have a lot of squat racks and that is kind of the point of the meme. How many are there three? And you want to him to stop doing his exercise because you started using the third rack and you're worried someone else might want to squat before either he finishes his partially completed exercise or the guy in squat rack 1 finishes his squats? Leave the man alone. Wait for there to be an actual conflict before getting on your high horse.

Did he crash his car? I saw that in a post on instagram but that detail was not present in any of the reporting I saw by local new agencies. "During the course of the trooper’s attempt to stop the Corvette, the car began travelling west on Highway 30. After several miles, Ferrari stopped the vehicle and fled on foot." https://www.1011now.com/2026/06/27/former-nebraska-wrestler-aj-ferrari-arrested-multiple-charges-lincoln-county/ "During an attempted traffic stop, Ferrari refused to stop and fled westbound, leading to a pursuit. After several miles, Ferrari stopped his car and fled on foot." https://okcfox.com/news/local/former-osu-nebraska-wrestler-aj-ferrari-arrested-after-police-pursuit-in-nebraska "After the chase covered several miles, Ferrari stopped the vehicle and fled on foot. " https://pokesreport.com/s/9015/the-demise-of-aj-ferrari-continues-with-multiple-charges-in-nebraska "He continued fleeing by turning northbound on Highway 83 before ultimately stopping the vehicle and fled on foot." https://nebraska.tv/news/local/former-husker-booked-on-multiple-charges I don't think he crashed his car, which is why I said no property damage. The local news wouldn't leave that detail out. Sure it's a serious crime, that could have ended much worse than it did, but are they going to devote the time and resources to this case? There are others more serious for sure.

This didn't age well. Did you learn anything from the decision?

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It only needs to convince 1 of 12.

One could imagine a multitude of ways to prove he was in the car to varying degrees of certainty. As I mentioned earlier his car could rat him out. Modern cars have lots of sensors including cameras and microphones. It may have recorded his voice or video of him in the car shortly before or during the pursuit. If his car has Bluetooth they might be able to use that to learn which devices were connected to it at the time of the pursuit, what phone calls were made, audio, etc. If that phone was AJs and if he was in possession of it when they found him that would be strong evidence. His phone could rat him out too. His could have been storing location/speed data during the chase which matches the position speed of the car. Even if they don't find his phone, he may have been sharing location data with apps that have the data stored in the cloud. Even if none of that exists cell tower information could correlate him with the chase. Even if none of that location date is useful he may have texted or called people after leaving on foot which could be helpful. The location itself is somewhat interesting. This took place in North Platte, NE. Does Ferrari live in North Platte? I would have thought if he was living in NE it would be near the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, which is about a three hour drive away from North Platte, NE, but maybe only 1hr at the speed AJ drives. If he lives in Lincoln, NE or Texas and was arrested in North Platte, NE that is circumstantial evidence he drove the car there. Even if he lives in North Platte an 11 minute high speed chase at 100+mph could have put him 10-20+ miles away from his destination. He might have had to travel a large distance after ditching. His phone records could show if he called/texted someone to pick him up. He phone records could also show if he called an uber/lyft/taxi. If he decided to hike/run 20mi instead of contacting someone or took a bus then he may well have passed dozens of cameras en route or encountered other people who could identify him as being in the vicinity. How much they get will in part depend on how much effort they want to put into this. At the end of the day it isn't the most serious crime. It wasn't a murder, it wasn't a violent crime, no one was hurt, and there wasn't even any property damage.

That’s right. The chase lasted 11 minutes, but he wasn’t apprehended at the scene. He ran off on foot and got away. The trooper searched the car and found documents that indicated it was Ferrari. They then got a warrant and arrested him a day later. Not sure what documents were found perhaps just the registration which probably isn’t going to prove he was driving to a sufficient standard. Maybe the trooper is able to pick him out of a lineup, but that might be difficult if there was separation during the chase.

It's not Pat Smith that watered down the 3xer accomplishment. Smith surpassed it. It was all the 3 out 4s that happened post 1967 that watered it down. Greg Johnson, Jimmy Jackson, LeRoy Kemp, Mark Churella, Ed Banach, Nate Carr, Mark Schultz, Barry Davis, Jim Zalesky, Ricky Bonomo, Carlton Haselrig, Tom Brands, TJ Jaworsky, Lincoln McIlravy, Joe Williams, Eric Guerrero, Stephen Abas, Greg Jones, Jake Rosholt, Ed Ruth, Alex Dieringer, J'den Cox, Zain Retherford, Kyle Snyder, Jason Nolf, Bo Nickel, Spencer Lee. Many would have been 2xers if they only had 3 chances?

I doubt it but based on Ferrsri’s interview at NCAAs in Philadelphia he thinks he might.

Yeah and his car might even rat him out. So many modern cars have cameras, microphones, and sensors that are constantly recording. If the evidence of him driving isn't solid it might allow for him to make a plea deal and avoid jail. Then potentially transfer and win two more NCAA titles.

The police didn’t catch him until a day later. I reckon that’s the reason one would run. If he was drunk it would now be neigh impossible for the police to prove that. If he had drugs or other contraband he could have taken it with him and disposed of it before the police located him. Even proving that he was in the drivers seat could be difficult to successful convict him of speeding or reckless driving could be difficult.

When the rule change to 4 years of competition from 3the nature of the rule change meant that no wrestlers that wrestled in NCAA competition that year could become a 4x champ. This change comes at a time when 3 true freshman had won NCAAs and now could become 5xers. It also opens the possibility that Luke Lilledahl could become a 4x champ. The rule change should add 5xers over time and also increase the rate of 4xers. It might take 25 years, but it will water down the 4xer status similar to how the change from 3 to 4 watered down 3xer status. It is inevitable if not immediate. Wrestlers that won 4 or 5 titles and wrestlers with the chance to do so that already have 1 NCAA title. 5 in 5 Sergio Vega 1-?-?-?-? Jax Forrest 1-?-?-?-? Landon Robideau 1-?-?-?-? 5 in 6 Carter Starocci RS-1-1-1-1-1 4 in 4 Kyle Dake 1-1-1-1 4 in 5 Aden Valencia RS-1-?-?-? Luke Lilledahl 3-1-?-?-? Logan Stieber RS-1-1-1-1 Cael Sanderson RS-1-1-1-1 Pat Smith 1-1-1-RS-1 4 in 6 Yianni Diakomihalis 1-1-RS-RS-1-1 Aaron Brooks GS-COVID-1-1-1-1

Unlikely. Didn’t Dominion Voting change ownership last year? I suspect the lawsuit wasn’t a priority of the new ownership. A win for Lindell, it not for the reason you list. Quoting from Wikipedia “In 2025, Scott Leiendecker, a former Republican Missouri election official and leader of e-pollbook manufacturer KnowInk, purchased Dominion Voting Systems under a new company called Liberty Vote.”

Not really sure where you’re going with all the ad block stuff. It is clear this site isn’t Willie’s priority. I could somewhat understand set it and forget it management for a forum where users generate the content, but the recently launched premium insiders forum kind of necessitates his involvement, no? Isn’t Willie the insider that’s supposed to be posting the inside informatio? If he logs on and posts once a month it doesn’t really work. I don’t think Willie owes regular users much whether they use ad block or not, but he needs to provide a functional site. If I were a paid member I’d expect more and I think Willie owes paid users more. Given how Willie has handled that lawsuit this website may be running on borrowed time. I hope Willie and Intermat somehow survive, but it doesn’t look good. He’s been defaulted and hasn’t responded.

A similar thing could have been said when it went from 3 years to 4. "It will be a long time until a 4x champ comes along because they will have to win as a freshman." Eventually that happened and now there are 7. One of those, Dake, did it without a redshirt. Two others won it as true freshman and redshirted later (Smith and Diakomihalis). With more freshman winning this year than ever before it would seem that more freshman are ready to win today than in the past.

I use ad block on here and everywhere. I would think the premium insider's forum concept would mean that Willie has to be on here more often, but I am not a subscriber to that.

Feel free to buy the dip.

I think the legacy of the 4x champs will be hurt by this. As 5x champs accumulate 4xers will be squeezed out of GOAT conversations. How many people talk about 3xers that went 3 for 3 in the discussion of all time greats after we got a handful of 4xers?

Basch did a live podcast with him discussing 5-for-5 earlier today. I don't think he could be in contempt yet as that was only filed yesterday. I think it's asking the court to set a hearing where Willie is required to come in and explain why he hasn't complied. If the court doesn't like his excuse there could be sanctions. I doubt the Marshalls would get involved, but since Willie hasn't responded to any of the court actions in over 1-2 years he probably won't show up for the show-cause.

Willie has enemies closer to home. Maybe the court has caught up with him and he is being held in contempt, thus unavailable to fix the forums? If he is out the Marshalls could be looking for him soon, if Gharavi gets what he is asking for. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.paed.649668/gov.uscourts.paed.649668.14.0.pdf

You of all people are stranger to false social media posts. The rationale isn't always political gain it can just be attention which translates $$ on social media. The fiction of the US playing England in Philly on July 4th is more likely to go viral and get views than reality. If a traditional news source made such a mistake it would be embarrassing, but on social media not so much. Many will not remember where they saw it or notice it was false when it doesn't happen as it was only presented as a possibility to begin with.

No mental gymnastics. It might be hypothetical here, but for an innocent person under police suspicion it’s reality. A more concrete example would be that outrageous story out of Florida that made headlines last month. A police officer pulled over a woman and told her the reason for the stop was that he saw her using her cell phone in her right hand. The woman then revealed that she does not have a right hand. She was born without a right hand. This did not deter the officer who proceeded to argue with her before asking for her license/registration and writing her a citation for wireless communication device handheld while driving. If a woman without a hand can’t talk her way out a ticket for holding a cell phone in the hand she doesn’t have what chance does someone in Nowak’s position have? Being out at that time of day means nothing. I think he was charged with something related to the knife but in most parts of the US that would be entirely legal too. It was kind of funny reading the police list all of the weapons they found in his house and refer to it as an arsenal. Most of them would not be illegal in large parts of the US and many many Americans are more heavily armed. Knuckle dusters, telescoping batons, flick knife, machete, an air rifle… Zero firearms. That qualifies as an arsenal in England.

I was discussing what the police may have believed at the scene. Confirmation bias can be especially strong with police officers. Once a police officer suspects you have committed a crime you become a criminal in their eyes. A criminal has every reason to lie and police will dismiss anything that suspect says that indicates they are innocent. The officer will look at the suspects words and actions not from the perspective of figuring out what has happened, but to build a case. There is an old saying when dealing with the police that you can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride. It is nigh impossible for a suspect to convince the police of his innocence at the scene, but that changes in court. If Digwa had beaten Nowak with his hands instead of stabbing him and Nowak had been merely injured Nowak probably would have spent the night in police custody and it could have taken days, weeks, or months to clear his name. Without a murder police would have been less likely to track down witnesses and video leaving the difficult work to Nowak. If this hypothetical had occurred somewhere that's tough on crime by denying to setting high bond Nowak might have had to figure out how to clear his name from jail. I think the court found that Digwa's turban was knocked off in the altercation, but that Digwa was the aggressor. Nowak might have hit him and the turban came off, but Digwa had attacked Nowak and not the other way around. Digwa was not wearing a turban in the body cam video that was released. The other stuff in that first bullet point was false. Nowak's BAC was not zero but under the drink-drive limit. They didn't believe Digwa was racially abused or that Nowak had threatened him.

I don't know if this was racial bias as much as it was confirmation bias. You see confirmation bias in many places but one place where it features prominently is aviation accidents. Some accidents are caused by a pilot with a false belief or mental model of the situation and he/she holds onto the false belief very strongly. Sometimes a pilot suffering from confirmation bias will believe their 100% accurate and functional instruments are broken/unreliable to maintain consistency with their false mental model. I think that's probably what happened to the police here. They got a call of a white man assaulting an Indian man and went to the call with that mental model. Finding Nowak on the ground bleeding from his mouth and face they filled in the gaps in a way that fit their existing mental model. This happened late at night in an area where there are bars and Nowak had come from a bar before the attack. One such story could be Nowak left the bar drunk saw Digwa on the street in a turbon and started harassed him saying things like leave the country. Things escalated and Nowak assaulted Digwa. Digwa fought back possibly with the help from his brother and got the better of Nowak. These events are consistent with the emergency call and explain why Nowak is on the ground bleeding from his mouth/face (His most serious injury was actually unseen internal bleeding from being stabbed in the chest). It is also consistent with Digwa's claim that he he had swelling to his face and Nowak had knocked off his turbon. If you reverse the races involved and make Nowak Indian and Digwa and his brother white dual Polish/British citizens I could see a similar thing happening. I think confirmation rather than racial bias played a larger roll. I don't know if Digwa is a UK citizen. Digwa, his father, and his brother were all born in England and his mother was born in India. UK citizenship goes by blood not place of birth and I haven't been able to definitively find if Digwa was a UK citizen he was born and raised in England. He was definitely not a migrant and doesn't fit the traditional definition of immigrant. Digwa's entire family faces charges from this. His mother is being charged related to removing the knife from the scene. Digwa, his brother, and his father face weapons charges. It seems crazy that the murder trail has concluded only 6-7 months after the attack and all these other lesser charges are still pending. It doesn't really work that way in the US. I don't think Digwa's brother is facing charges relating to the false report, but it might be a more difficult case to make. Digwa's brother was not present for the attack and they would likely have to prove he knowingly made a false report. He could claim that Digwa told him he was attacked which leaves doubt that could only be refuted with testimony from Digwa. I don't know that even if the police reacted perfectly Nowak could have been saved here. The ambulance should have already been on the way as a result of the emergency services call. I am sure moving Nowak and handcuffing him did not help, but I don't think there is much they could have done to help the internal bleeding from the stab to his chest. Nowak likely dies either way. The police should have maintained an open mind and practiced flexible thinking, but that takes time vs jumping to a conclusion. Nowak didn't really have any time to spare.